The Dissent

San Francisco real estate is famously insane.

There's a joke making the rounds in San Francisco that perfectly captures the absurdity of the city's housing…

Every few months, someone publishes a breathless think piece about how some other city has cracked the code on housing…

A recently circulated historic photo of First and Market streets from 1915 is making the rounds among San Franciscans —…

There's something beautifully cruel about a neighborhood garage sale in San Francisco.

There's a certain dark comedy to paying San Francisco rent — some of the highest in the nation — and still not being…

Here's a scene playing out at preschool drop-offs across San Francisco right now: parents casually swapping notes about…

Someone was unpacking their grandmother's old boxes from a 1986 move out of the Richmond District and found a newspaper…

Bernal Heights Park remains one of San Francisco's most underrated gems — sweeping views, windswept hilltop vibes, and…

Golden Gate Fields — the storied horse racing track perched on the Albany waterfront — is heading toward its next life.

Here's a small story that says a lot about how San Francisco works — and occasionally doesn't.

Just when you thought San Francisco's housing market might finally give aspiring homeowners a breather, April's MLS…

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…