The Dissent

Here's your Monday reality check from the San Francisco housing market: a landlord in Nob Hill is asking prospective…

Here's a question that should bother anyone who's ever grabbed a coffee at SFO, checked a bag, or walked through a…

Here's a fun little market failure for you: San Francisco, a city where a one-bedroom apartment costs more than a…

Walk down any major corridor in San Francisco — Market Street, parts of the Mission, stretches of SoMa — and you'll…

Here's a radical concept for San Francisco in 2025: growing your own food on a tiny slab of concrete you're already…

There's a free screening and Q&A coming up in San Francisco for No Place to Grow Old, a documentary tackling the city's…

Here's a story that perfectly encapsulates Bay Area development: Oakland is eyeing the popular Rockridge Trader Joe's…

Here's a story that perfectly encapsulates San Francisco's housing dysfunction.

Somewhere in San Francisco, a guy named Sam Devdhara figured out what City Hall has spent decades pretending doesn't…

Here's a story that perfectly encapsulates the Bay Area's broken housing equation: A tech worker moved from Sunnyvale…

Here's something that should surprise exactly no one who's apartment-hunted in San Francisco: landlords are hiding some…

If you were anywhere near Mt. Davidson last night, you saw it — a dramatic curtain of rain hammering the East Bay while…

There's a conversation happening among Bay Area twentysomethings right now, and it's revealing something that won't…

In a city where vacant storefronts have become as iconic as the Painted Ladies, here's a rare win: Zara is reportedly…

For anyone who's walked past the ghostly husk of the former Old Navy at 4th and Market and wondered if downtown retail…

A company wants to build a 400-bed "super dorm" of sleeping pods in San Francisco, charging $700 a month per pod.

Here's a fun riddle: What happens when the state of California orders cities to build more housing, courts uphold those…

Here's a thought experiment: What happens when a region that already can't house its middle class suddenly mints tens…

Here's a question Bay Area renters shouldn't have to ask: Is it normal for mold to keep growing in your kid's bedroom…

Here's a fun number for you: San Francisco is on pace to approve fewer than 50 new housing permits this year.

Take a walk through any San Francisco neighborhood where new multifamily housing has gone up in the last decade and…

If you've ever wondered what $22.5 million buys you in San Francisco real estate — besides a crippling property tax…

Here's a plot twist nobody in San Francisco saw coming: we're not even the most expensive city in America anymore.

San Francisco's skyline has no shortage of glass-and-steel luxury towers, but the Mira — that twisting, angular…