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Does supply and demand work for housing the way it’s supposed to? Does San Francisco, in particular, represent a weird freak of market rule that reverses the traditional effects? These questions ...
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are set to vote on a change to the city’s planning code that would do away with decades-old requirements that new developments include a ...
On Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee mandated a citywide goal of 5,000 new homes built every year, asking all city agencies with a hand in permitting to cut average wait times in half to ...
Although claims that San Francisco is hemorrhaging residents and that Silicon Valley is “over” are not all that they’re cracked up to be, Bay Area residents are increasingly likely to tell ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to—what else?—Twitter on Friday to let loose a series of complaints about Proposition C, the San Francisco ballot measure that, if passed, will raise taxes on the ...
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the tech giant has pledged to build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years, three-quarters of them built on land owned by the ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during his inauguration as his son, Dutch, graces the podium. Photo by AP Photo/Eric Risberg Before an inauguration speech that included flowery language ...
It’s been a tough week for electric scooters in San Francisco, as locals liken the two-wheeled contraptions to the vehicular equivalent of an invasive species. The problem is not necessarily the ...
Though largely symbolic, voters chose to ban tents on city streets.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors introduced a proposal that would grant renters facing eviction access to an attorney, something Board President London Breed says 90 percent of evictees lack.
Like clockwork, it’s almost Election Day in San Francisco; in fact, early voting has already started for the upcoming California primary election on March 3, 2020. In additional to the hotly ...
A major Chicago-based medical association has decided to move its $40 million convention out of San Francisco due to safety issues for its conventioneers. The neighborhood’s open drug use and ...