The Dissent

Walk down almost any residential block in San Francisco and you'll notice something you won't find in most American…

Here's a brain teaser for you: What happens when rents keep climbing but it's still too expensive to build new housing?

A newcomer relocating from New York — someone with excellent credit, stable income, no pets, no kids, and earnings well…

A fire tore through an affordable housing building in the Tenderloin this week, displacing 46 residents and raising…

Here's a fun thought experiment: What happens to San Francisco housing costs when billions of dollars in AI wealth are…

In a city where it takes longer to approve an apartment building than it does to actually construct one, San Francisco…

A Cow Hollow mansion just sold for $15 million — a cool $7 million over asking — setting San Francisco's 21st-century…

In a city where the median home price hovers around $1.3 million and a one-bedroom apartment can eat half your…

Here's a fun scenario that apparently just played out in San Francisco's rental market: A tenant signs a lease.

Every week, a fresh wave of hopefuls posts online asking whether they can make it in San Francisco.

If you thought the days of queueing around the block for a mediocre apartment were behind us, think again.

Here's a Bay Area tale as old as time: your roommate is behind on rent, swears they'll make it right, and now they're…

If you've tried renting a house — not an apartment, an actual house — as a single person in the Bay Area recently, you…

If you've tried to find a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco recently, congratulations — you now know what it feels…

Take a stroll past Alamo Square and look across at the most photographed row of houses in America — the Painted Ladies.

California's Democratic gubernatorial candidates are making the media rounds talking about housing, and if you've lived…

We get it. San Francisco has a way of getting under your skin. The fog, the hills, the burritos that ruin every other…

In a city where it can take longer to get a building permit than to earn a medical degree, a seven-story residential…

A 29-year-old woman in tech recently posted a detailed breakdown of her finances online, inviting other San Franciscans…

If you've recently signed a lease in San Francisco — first of all, condolences on your rent payment — you're probably…

Here's a feel-good story that also happens to be an economics lesson: 24th Street is leading the Mission District's…

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything "right" and still feeling like you're losing.

Here's a question that apparently still needs answering in 2025: why are people in their late 30s in San Francisco not…

The Academy of Art University has sold one of its Fisherman's Wharf properties — a site that's been earmarked for…