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The unexpected solution to America’s affordable housing crunch: the urban movement
The ones currently doing the kicking are the YIMBYs, a loosely allied collection of pro-development housing advocates whose name plays on the acronym NIMBY...
Leaning tower of San Francisco
A luxury high-rise in the heart of San Francisco City has been dubbed the “leaning tower of San Francisco” after the building began to...
15 Years in the pipeline
Cranes are on the horizon in San Francisco in a most unlikely place, South of Market’s (SoMa) Harrison Street. The area with a most...
Gunfight at the Airbnb coral
That means Airbnb and others must stick to advertising San Francisco hosts who have registered with the city and haven’t exceeded the number of...
Paradise lost
San Francisco has topped the list of every national rental report since Zumper began publishing them in August 2014, and was named the most...
Prometheus exits fee business
San Mateo-based Prometheus is exiting the sector to focus its energy more on its growing development pipeline, said Darren Carrington, senior vice president of...
The bubble that never was
My friend is a numbers guy. He's managed portfolios in the billions and continually chants the word, "correction." I now think it's not so...
How green is that building?
Ecologically-sustainable building practices -"green labels"-will now be included on official land records maintained by the city, according to Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting and Department of...
It’s a small world
The city is considering shrinking the minimum size of rental units, prompted by a demographic shift toward one-person households along with rising rents and...
SF landlord won’t let tenant charge electric car
California is trying to promote green technology, but one of San Francisco's biggest landlords has told a tenant he cannot use a plug to...
San Francisco gold rush
Largely in response to the city's growing technology sector, 22,000 residential units are in various stages of approval and construction. In a few years,...
The latest cottage business: app fees
At a "nice" $3,500-per-month loft in the Mission, "80 people showed up for the open house," said Ms. Lamas, 23, who recently began working...