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Here's a brain teaser for you: What happens when rents keep climbing but it's still too expensive to build new housing? You get San Francisco. A new city repo...
A newcomer relocating from New York — someone with excellent credit, stable income, no pets, no kids, and earnings well above the standard 3x-rent threshold — r...
A fire tore through an affordable housing building in the Tenderloin this week, displacing 46 residents and raising urgent questions about the condition of the...
Here's a fun thought experiment: What happens to San Francisco housing costs when billions of dollars in AI wealth are still *on paper* — and the real liquidity...
In a city where it takes longer to approve an apartment building than it does to actually construct one, San Francisco has maintained one of the most absurd wea...
A Cow Hollow mansion just sold for $15 million — a cool $7 million over asking — setting San Francisco's 21st-century record for overbidding. Let that sink in f...
In a city where the median home price hovers around $1.3 million and a one-bedroom apartment can eat half your paycheck, you'd think San Francisco would be pull...
Here's a fun scenario that apparently just played out in San Francisco's rental market: A tenant signs a lease. The landlord signs the lease. Both parties have...
Every week, a fresh wave of hopefuls posts online asking whether they can make it in San Francisco. This week brought us a Kentucky HVAC technician worried abou...
If you thought the days of queueing around the block for a mediocre apartment were behind us, think again. Residents in Cole Valley recently spotted a line of r...
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 asking about getting a personal loan from...
If you've tried renting a house — not an apartment, an actual house — as a single person in the Bay Area recently, you know it can feel like applying to an Ivy...
If you've tried to find a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco recently, congratulations — you now know what it feels like to compete on a reality show where...
Take a stroll past Alamo Square and look across at the most photographed row of houses in America — the Painted Ladies. Built in the 1890s, these six Victorian...
California's Democratic gubernatorial candidates are making the media rounds talking about housing, and if you've lived in this state for more than five minutes...
We get it. San Francisco has a way of getting under your skin. The fog, the hills, the burritos that ruin every other burrito for the rest of your life. And eve...
In a city where it can take longer to get a building permit than to earn a medical degree, a seven-story residential infill project is actually under constructi...
A 29-year-old woman in tech recently posted a detailed breakdown of her finances online, inviting other San Franciscans to share theirs. She pulls in roughly $1...
If you've recently signed a lease in San Francisco — first of all, condolences on your rent payment — you're probably staring at an empty apartment wondering ho...
Here's a feel-good story that also happens to be an economics lesson: 24th Street is leading the Mission District's economic recovery, and it's not because City...
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything "right" and still feeling like you're losing. Go to college, get a tech-adjacent job, m...
Here's a question that apparently still needs answering in 2025: why are people in their late 30s in San Francisco not rushing to have children? Gee, let us th...
The Academy of Art University has sold one of its Fisherman's Wharf properties — a site that's been earmarked for housing conversion. And if you've been followi...
Every few weeks, someone from out of town posts a breathless love letter to San Francisco. They visited for a long weekend, walked across the Golden Gate Bridge...
If you're thinking about moving to San Francisco right now, we have good news and bad news. The good news: landlords in some neighborhoods are more flexible on...
How much should it cost to build a 300-square-foot studio apartment? If you said "about a million dollars," congratulations — you think like San Francisco's aff...
Walk down Valencia Street on a Saturday afternoon and you'll see the Mission District's contradictions on full display: a taquería that's been slinging burritos...
Oakland home values continue to fall — among the fastest declines in the nation — and a certain crowd is treating this like a crisis. But let's take a breath an...
If you live in the Mission or Bernal Heights and want to hit a proper full-size gym without trekking downtown, you already know the frustration. The neighborhoo...
The Bay Area's slow-motion mandate to push everyone off gas water heaters has generated a predictable amount of cheerleading — and an equally predictable amount...