Housing
Skyrocketing SF rents mapped
July 9, 2019
Mark Prado
The site Zumper created an interesting page mapping rents in San Francisco district by district. Read More
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How SF housing has become a goldmine in the last decade
July 3, 2019
Mark Prado
The USA Today wrote a piece on how the San Francisco housing market has gone bonkers over the last 10 years. Read More
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Google pledges $1 billion for housing
June 18, 2019
Mark Prado
Google will spend $1 billion to address the Bay Area housing crisis, the tech company colossus announced Tuesday. Read More
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I have my housing. You don't? Your problem.
June 3, 2019
Mark Prado
New transit oriented housing being built near Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco.
A new article in Slate poses that the housing problem in the Bay Area and throughout the state is a generational issue. Read More
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Report: Housing starts sluggish
April 19, 2019
Mark Prado
A development in San Francisco's Sunset District will have commercial space and housing units.
Despite a large demand for housing, new projects have dipped over the last two years, according to a report in MarketWatch based on federal data released Friday. Read More
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SF mayor wants to cut fees to boost affordable housing
February 11, 2019
Mark Prado
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is calling for the elimination of fees for projects that would provide 100 percent affordable housing. Read More
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Throwback Thursday: Old rail cars for housing has been done before
January 31, 2019
Resident of Carville. Photo via www.foundsf.org.
There has been some interest from housing advocates to use old BART rail cars for homes, a strategy that was used more than a century ago along San Francisco's most western shore. Read More
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New partnership announced to address region's affordable housing crisis
January 24, 2019
Mark Prado
Bay Area community and faith leaders, housing advocates, business leaders, and philanthropists announced Thursday the launch of a regional public-private housing partnership with a goal of building one of the country’s largest investment funds to address the regional affordable housing crisis. Read More
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Report: Two Bay Area cities have most expensive housing in the world
January 22, 2019
Mark Prado
The 15th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey is out and reveals San Jose and San Francisco are among the most expensive for housing in the world, both landing in the top 10. Read More
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Martin Luther King Jr. had vision for affordable, fair housing
January 18, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. saw fair and affordable housing as an important right. Read More