The Dissent

A recent study published in the Journal of Political Economy puts a hard number on something free-market advocates have…

Drive down the Mission-Excelsior corridor and you can't miss it — one of the taller new buildings in the neighborhood…

Limited housing supply continues to push San Francisco real estate costs skyward, and at this point the only reasonable…

There's a running joke in San Francisco that you need to get on a preschool waitlist before the pregnancy test comes…

Berkeley, a city where a mid-century smoke shop could theoretically be declared a protected historic landmark, has…

An East Bay BART station is about to lose 400 parking spaces as construction begins on a new housing development.

A San Francisco home recently sold for 62% over its listed asking price, and the internet predictably lost its mind.

There's a proposal floating around San Francisco: slap an extra tax on vacant luxury second residences valued over $5…

While the rest of San Francisco argues about whether a studio apartment should cost $3,200 or $3,500 a month, there's…

There's a certain genre of Bay Area content we never get tired of: the newcomer reality check.

Every few weeks, someone on the internet decides to play real estate influencer and tell the rest of us where we should…

Here's a scenario that should make your blood boil: You sign a lease on a one-bedroom in Hayes Valley at the listed…

California's housing policy elite gathered at UCLA recently for what was billed as a comprehensive look at the state's…

Here's your Bay Area housing update in three acts: Home prices are surging at their fastest clip in eight years.

Something remarkable is happening in San Francisco: the city is actually trying to make it easier to build housing.

When a real estate dynasty that has survived the English Civil War, two World Wars, and four centuries of British…

Here's a question that shouldn't be controversial but somehow still is: why aren't Bay Area millennials having kids?

Here's a story that should make every renter's blood boil — and every landlord think twice about cutting corners.

Here's a fun little riddle: How can a city have a housing crisis and thousands of units owned by people who don't even…

If you're apartment hunting in San Francisco and using Craigslist, congratulations — you've entered one of the most…

Here's a fun number for your Wednesday: if you buy a home in San Jose instead of renting a comparable one, you'll spend…

Here's a fun one for anyone who still believes government-adjacent housing programs are efficient stewards of public…

Every time San Francisco moves even an inch toward building more housing, the NextDoor threads light up like it's the…

Allegations are circulating that Equity Residential — one of the largest publicly traded landlords in the country — has…