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Love Letters to SF Are Nice — But Let's Talk About What It Actually Costs to Live Here
PublishedEvery few weeks, someone from out of town posts a breathless love letter to San Francisco.
SF Rents Are Back With a Vengeance — And Your Credit Score Might Not Save You
PublishedIf you're thinking about moving to San Francisco right now, we have good news and bad news.
A Million Bucks a Studio: The Jaw-Dropping Math Behind SF's Affordable Housing at 3300 Mission
PublishedHow much should it cost to build a 300-square-foot studio apartment?
The Mission's Identity Crisis Is Older Than You Think
PublishedWalk down Valencia Street on a Saturday afternoon and you'll see the Mission District's contradictions on full display…
Oakland Built Housing and Prices Dropped. That's How Supply and Demand Works.
PublishedOakland home values continue to fall — among the fastest declines in the nation — and a certain crowd is treating this…
The Mission Has a Gym Problem — And It's Not What You Think
PublishedIf you live in the Mission or Bernal Heights and want to hit a proper full-size gym without trekking downtown, you…
Heat Pump Water Heaters: The Math Isn't as Simple as Sacramento Wants You to Think
PublishedThe Bay Area's slow-motion mandate to push everyone off gas water heaters has generated a predictable amount of…
NE San Francisco Is Getting a New Grocery Option — And the Neighborhood Can't Contain Itself
PublishedIf you live in northeast San Francisco — Fisherman's Wharf, North Beach, or anywhere in that orbit — you already know…
Governor Hopefuls Want to 'Build Faster' on Housing — But Nobody Wants to Talk About the Hard Part
PublishedCalifornia's gubernatorial candidates recently gathered for a housing policy forum, and the consensus was as…
The Math on Renting in SF Doesn't Add Up — Because It Literally Can't
PublishedHere's a fun exercise: take the median household income in San Francisco — just under $140,000 — and try to rent a…
The Central Valley Super-Commute: Bay Area's Dirty Little Housing Secret
PublishedHere's a question that tells you everything you need to know about the Bay Area housing market: How do people commute…
Flowers in Your Hair Won't Cover the Rent Increase
Published"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair." Scott McKenzie sang those words in 1967…
The Mission Has Burritos But No Bench Press — And That's a Market Failure
PublishedHere's a fun exercise (pun intended): try finding a full-service gym near 24th and Mission.
SF Rent Control's Bizarre Loophole: Tenants Can Hoard Units, Owners Can't
PublishedHere's a fun little quirk of San Francisco housing policy that perfectly encapsulates why our "housing crisis" never…
The Bay Area's Gas Heater Ban Is a $8,000 Problem Dressed Up as Climate Policy
PublishedStarting in 2027, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will require homeowners replacing their gas water…
SF's Hidden Brooklyn: The Townhouse Blocks You've Walked Past a Thousand Times
PublishedSan Francisco gets a lot of architectural love for its Painted Ladies, its Victorians, its mid-century modernist…
SoMa Gets New Affordable Housing — But Let's Talk About Where the Real Money Goes
PublishedThe Freelon Apartments are coming to SoMa, promising dozens of new affordable units for low-income individuals and…
A 40% Rent Hike and the Art of Getting Pushed Out of San Francisco
PublishedHere's a fun little housing horror story that perfectly captures the state of renting in San Francisco in 2025.
One Homeowner's Heat Pump Win Doesn't Mean the Mandate Makes Sense
PublishedA San Mateo homeowner recently shared a pretty compelling DIY story: swapped out a gas water heater for a heat pump…
The Fillmore's Cruelest Irony: A Co-Op Built to Prevent Displacement Is Now Displacing People
PublishedIf you wanted to write a parable about how San Francisco manages to betray its own good intentions, you couldn't do…
$1.1 Million Per Unit: Bernal Heights Gets New 'Affordable' Housing at a Very Unaffordable Price
PublishedNew affordable housing is going up at 3300 Mission Street in Bernal Heights, and on the surface, that sounds like good…
Inner Sunset vs. Glen Park: The SF Neighborhood Dilemma Nobody Can Solve for You
PublishedThere's a moment in every San Francisco apartment hunt where you stop comparing square footage and start comparing…
The Bay Area's Homeless Shell Game: Cities Aren't Solving the Problem, They're Just Exporting It
PublishedHere's the Bay Area's latest innovation in governance: instead of actually solving homelessness, cities are competing…
The Marie Kondo Economy: Why SF Parents Are Paying Strangers to Declutter Their 800 Sq Ft Lives
PublishedHere's a sentence that perfectly encapsulates San Francisco living in 2025: a resident with an 800-square-foot home, a…