$1,200: monthly rent for a bunk bed in a dormitory-style setting at PodShare’s San Francisco housing . . . $628.5 million: amount of a bond for earthquake safety and emergency re... Read More
MIDYEAR MARKET UPDATE The economy remains strong, as does housing. Sounds simple enough, right? But the interesting stuff is in the details. Leslie Appleton-Young and Jordan Levine... Read More
More & more empty storefronts. Everywhere!” One Marina Times reader added that note when sending us a response to our quality of life survey (“Speak up, Northside,” June ... Read More
One-third: Percentage of U.S. pets that are overweight, according to Banfield Pet Hospital . . . 430: Number of burglaries year-to-date in Northern Station’s part of the city .... Read More
The Discover Polk Community Benefit District launched monthly Only on Polk Summer Saturdays, with participating shops flying an “Only on Polk” flag and offering discounts and s... Read More
HOUSING PRICES REBOUND After several years of prices below the heights they reached in 2015, the median house sales prices are back up to their second-highest levels for the area i... Read More
After 17 months of proposals, submissions, refinements, and public input, the Presidio Trust’s board of directors in June went back to square one, rejecting a proposal submitted ... Read More
With former prosecutor and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani the only dissenting vote, San Francisco supervisors overwhelmingly approved a bill to ban the use of facial recog... Read More
In her two-year budget proposal, Mayor London Breed added $11.9 million to efforts to clean San Francisco’s streets. The money would fund seven new staffed Pit Stop public toilet... Read More
State Senator Scott Wiener stirred up a hornets’ nest last year when he pushed a bill to allow greater density of housing around transit points across the state. That bill died e... Read More
Recently in the news there was a story about the Oakland A’s baseball team lining up political support for a new stadium to be built (they hope) at the Howard Terminal on the wa... Read More
To steal from Joan Jett’s “victim of Circumstance,” San Francisco is “Just a victim of a bad reputation / I [got] no chance of shakin’.” The reputation in question is t... Read More
You’ll be forgiven for rolling your eyes as I mention that the Economist Intelligence Unit recently reported on the 10 most expensive cities in the world. You already know we’r... Read More
I don’t know how you feel about it,” the neighbor said, informing me about a neighborhood development. “I don’t know if you’re a NIMBY or YIMBY or whatever . . . ” My n... Read More
Standing in line at the Walgreens checkout, you see a slumping, somewhat disheveled man who has been loitering in one of the nearby aisles suddenly quickly head toward the exit, us... Read More