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SF Housing 1940&Ndash;2014

The city’s housing shortage becomes much clearer when taken in the context of housing construction trends over the past 74 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, the number of new ho... Read More
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Hottest Neighborhoods

In 2013, the hipster-afflicted Mission district was rated one of the country’s “hottest” neighborhoods, but in 2015, it is replaced in the top 10 list by Daly Cit... Read More
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Airbnb Law In Effect

At the beginning of February, San Francisco’s so-called “Airbnb law” went live, legalizing short-term rentals under certain conditions and imposing insurance and ... Read More
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Commercial Strong In S.F.

Office real estate in San Francisco continues to perform well, helped by constrained supply — even with all of the new construction under way — and the same booming economy tha... Read More
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Rents Record

A shortage of supply and continued booming economy combined to produce another month of record-high rent rates in San Francisco, according to Zumper.com. “San Francisco’... Read More
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Market-Rate Housing Moratorium?

Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener have staked out different positions on proposals by a neighborhood group to impose a moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission. The... Read More
The Best of Books

What you’re reading

By Brian Pettus

Books Inc. best-seller list The Girl on the Train: A Novel, by Paula Hawkins City of Thieves: A Novel, by David Benioff Cool Gray City of Love, by Gary Kamiya Boys in the Boat: Ni... Read More
The In-Box

Letters to the ‘Times’

UNION STREET

I just finished [Susan Reynolds’s] fine piece on the Café des Amis, and the Marina/Cow Hollow restaurant scene in general [“The real story behind closing Café des Ami... Read More
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Rough Waters For Archbishop

San Francisco’s conservative Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has found himself in hot water with the city’s famously liberal politicians because of new morality clauses... Read More
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Beat History Becomes Today’s Feature

Jazz and poetry jams will get the high-end treatment in a modern tribute to the city’s beat roots. San Francisco’s Beat Museum has partnered with the InterContinental M... Read More
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Are Chinese Investors Repeating Japanese Mistakes?

The last time the United States thought it could be overtaken economically by a rising Asian power, the country in question was Japan in the 1980s. Back then, one of the places Jap... Read More
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State Of The City Speech Prioritizes Housing

In his annual State of the City address, delivered in mid-January, Mayor Ed Lee framed the challenges facing San Francisco in terms of finding ways to share the prosperity. Address... Read More
Union Insider

What’s happening at the west end of Union Street

By Christine Roher

Union Street is constantly evolving — entrepreneurs moving in to realize their dreams; others shutting their doors, deciding it’s time to move on. In one block alone — be... Read More
Police Blotter

’Twas the season for breaking the law

The Marina and Cow Hollow really stepped up this past holiday season to help make the San Francisco Police Department’s annual toy drive a success. Northern Station Captain G... Read More
The In-Box

The In-Box: Letters to the Times

NOT SO SKETCHY Lately I have been reading “Sketches from a North Beach Journal” by Ernest Beyl in the Marina Times. Last month lo and behold is his best — “The ... Read More

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