Latest Housing News
- One S.F. neighborhood added just 0.2% of city’s housing units in past...San Francisco’s east side builds far more housing than the west and south. A Chronicle data analysis shows just how stark that difference is.By Danielle Echeverria
- By Mallory Moench and Kevin Fagan
Homeless
- S.F. developer hits brick wall in bid to turn Tenderloin lot into housingThe owner of a little, vacant lot in the Tenderloin wants to turn it into 100% affordable housing. But in a city that makes building housing so expensive and time-consuming, he’s no closer now than...By Heather Knight
- By Rachel Swan and Michael CabanatuanBy Sarah Ravani, Jordan Parker and Michael Cabanatuan
Renting
- Deluged with complaints about ‘a living hell’, major Bay Area city caps...Worried about a “perpetual party zone,” Santa Rosa has capped the number of vacation rentals in which the host is not present.By Julie Johnson
- By J.K. Dineen and J.D. Morris
Housing & Mass Transit
- Oakland council allows delayed housing project near West Oakland BART to...The council voted unanimously to reject an appeal filed by a coalition of four local unions that argued for more environmental analysis — an appeal that delayed the project for 10 months.By Sarah Ravani
- By Lauren Hernández and Sarah Ravani
More on the Housing Crisis
- California’s unprecedented review of San Francisco’s slow housing approval process has been questioned by Supervisor Dean Preston. Assemblyman Matt Haney supports it. By J.D. Morris
- Single women are outpacing single men in buying homes in the cutthroat San Francisco and San Jose metro areas, federal data shows, despite enduring gender pay gaps and unaffordability concerns. By Lauren Hepler
- While a potential recession would have a negative impact on the Bay Area’s housing market, its effects would probably be worse in U.S. metropolitan areas that saw a pandemic influx of people from places like San Francisco and San Jose, a new... By Kellie Hwang
- The pending eviction of a 61-year-old chef from his San Francisco home of more than half a century because of a technicality has been delayed, along with four other cases, after a series of protests calling attention to their situation. By J.K. Dineen
- San Francisco must build 82,000 new housing units by 2030. The state said its current plan isn’t realistic, and that it should develop a Plan B. By J.K. Dineen
- California’s Attorney General said in a statement that some residential groups opposing proposed affordable housing are using environmental regulations to delay projects. By Shwanika Narayan
- The California Department of Housing and Community Development said Tuesday that it would focus on San Francisco for its first-ever “housing policy and practice review.” By J.K. Dineen
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Billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen believes in building more housing. Just not where he livesThe 7,000-person town of Atherton, where many of Silicon Valley’s richest live, is struggling to come up with a plan to meet the state’s new housing requirements. Among the voices resisting is Marc Andreessen, who has spoken about the need for... By Danielle Echeverria
- With little end in sight for the housing and affordability crisis gripping Tahoe and other Sierra mountain towns, employers are using last-resort options to house workers, some of whom travel tremendous distances to work. By Rachel Swan
- A coalition of port workers, truckers and cargo terminal operators filed a lawsuit against the state agency that voted earlier this summer to allow Howard Terminal to be used for the A’s $12 billion proposed waterfront project. By Sarah Ravani
- The residents, who have all lived in their homes for years, say they’re being evicted on bureaucratic technicalities to make way for new, higher-paying residents. By J.K. Dineen
- The ruling comes after local groups sued the university, challenging its long-range development plan, which calls for building housing for 11,730 students by 2037. By Sarah Ravani and Emma Talley
- The residential tower that’s part of the Block 4 development will be 513 feet tall and add 681 housing units to the San Francisco core. By J.K. Dineen
- A widening gap between renters who make minimum wage and high-earners shut out of homeownership signals a shift in the housing crisis, new data shows. By Lauren Hepler
- Jordan Moss invented a new way to create affordable, workforce housing in high rent areas of the Bay Area, adding 4,200 units. But some say the process doesn’t reduce rents enough, and “could give affordable housing a bad name.” By J.K. Dineen
- Dozens of workers employed in the nonprofit’s residential hotels across the city took to the streets Wednesday morning for a one-day strike calling for higher wages in the face of protracted bargaining discussions between the union and THC. By Annie Vainshtein
- Fremont saw its homeless population skyrocket over the past three years by nearly 69% — one of the biggest jumps in the East Bay. By Sarah Ravani
- While the two sides made progress addressing worker fatigue — agreeing to allot three mental health days for each employee — they remain at odds over wages. By Rachel Swan
- Online home buying, off-market selling, renting extra space by the hour: Startups promising to democratize housing confront questions about inequality. By Lauren Hepler
- For Giselle Hale, the decision to drop her campaign for the California Legislature came after she said she noticed the toll it had taken on her family, especially her two young daughters. By Dustin Gardiner
- A federal judge decided Friday to continue a temporary restraining order against Caltrans, extending a prohibition on clearing out 200 residents of a sprawling homeless encampment at Oakland’s Wood Street. By Sarah Ravani
- Federal legislation on privacy protections for personal data collected by businesses won approval from a House committee over objections from two California members and Gov. Newsom, who say the measure would largely override California law. By Bob Egelko
- Mayor London Breed is vetoing legislation passed by the Board of Supervisors that would have eliminated single-family zoning and instead allowed fourplexes in every neighborhood and six-unit homes on all corner lots. By Mallory Moench and J.D. Morris
- S.F. reclaimed the title it previously held in 2019 from Tokyo. By Chase DiFeliciantonio
- Dubbed the Oak, the 109-unit building near the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue was supposed to let new residents move in months ago. But it remains empty with graffiti on outside walls and the entrance boarded up. By J.K. Dineen