John Zipperer

Northsider

Briefly noted

By John Zipperer

SEARCHING HILL & CO. If you’re looking for a home but you don’t feel like dragging yourself all the way over to Hill & Co’s 1880 Lombard office, or to its... Read More
Real Estate Investor

The whole city

By John Zipperer

November’s general election is shaping up to be another one in which voters will be confronted with multiple options for addressing the same problem: the rising cost of city ... Read More
Cathouse

Ashes, feminist icon

By John Zipperer

In 1979, 20th Century Fox unleashed a new-wave science fiction/horror film called Alien. Basically a haunted house movie set in space, it featured a cat named Jones, one of (spoile... Read More
Real Estate

The housing gap

Home prices and evictions have spurred a resistance movement to the city’s boomtime growth
By John Zipperer

Part three of a four-part series (Part 4, Part 2) Perhaps all of San Francisco’s heated political debates about growth would be solved if people could just live in those Goog... Read More
Cathouse

The cat that ate the whole world

By John Zipperer

The story popped up in my Facebook feed one day. It told of a dog that loved his food dearly, always wolfing it down in one go. Then the dog’s family noticed that he wasnR... Read More
Real Estate

There is no such thing as cheap

By John Zipperer

The headlines are depressing if you’re a renter and exciting if you’re a landlord. “New numbers show San Francisco has nation’s highest rents,” report... Read More
Real Estate

The cost of living … here

By John Zipperer

EARNING POWER You need an annual income of $137,129 to purchase a home in San Francisco, according to mortgage research firm HSH.com; that number lands this city in the number-one ... Read More
Business

What kind of a dodo bird are you and why?

By John Zipperer

True or false: If you put salt on your food before tasting it during an interview at Google, you won’t get hired. It at least used to be true, according to a couple different... Read More
Northsider

That which does not kill us makes us healthier

By John Zipperer

NIKE UP AND RUNNING The new 2,000-square-foot Nike retail store opened May 16 at 2071 Union Street. In addition to selling a range of men’s and women’s running, trainin... Read More

The shape-shifting city

The evolving face of San Francisco brings home one message: It’s always changing
By John Zipperer

This is the second of a four-part series exploring the growth of San Francisco.... Read More
Cathouse

Five tips for making the perfect cat video

By John Zipperer

Last year, something called the Internet Cat Video Festival drew 13,000 people to the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand. Before you make some snarky comment about how that’s al... Read More
Real Estate

‘We’ve written it off’: Affordable housing expert Andre Shashaty on the state of housing policy and sustainable communities

By John Zipperer

As San Francisco residents and their political, business and social leaders try to get a handle on housing affordability in the city, they must do so at a time when governments lar... Read More
Northsider

Space for lucky moms

By John Zipperer

HELP FOR MOMS Just a few days before you celebrate Mother’s Day by letting your mother know how lucky you are to have her, you can help some of the city’s most vulnerab... Read More

Growing pains: How much San Francisco is too much San Francisco?

By John Zipperer

This is the first of a four-part series exploring the growth of San Francisco. The downtown-bound BART train was particularly full one recent morning, when yet another group of com... Read More
The Mystery Housebuyer

Novel housing ideas

By John Zipperer

In Peter Schneider’s 2000 novel Eduard’s Homecoming, a German scientist living in the United States returns to Germany when he learns that he has inherited an apartment buildin... Read More


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