5+ hour, 50+ min ago   (734+ words) The San Francisco Standard Whoever wins the November race for District 10 supervisor will have plenty on his plate: a potential moratorium on data centers, the rental crisis, and what to do with 60 tiny cabins for unhoused people that are sitting…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (456+ words) The mayor has built his brand on fiscal restraint and business ties. This week, he swung toward labor and renters, his biggest political turn yet. In the last 48 hours, Mayor Daniel Lurie made two moves likely to surprise those who…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (556+ words) Rental prices have surged in San Francisco more than anywhere else in the country in the last year. With housing scarce and the cost of renting an apartment skyrocketing, Mayor Daniel Lurie plans to declare a rent emergency on Thursday....

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1832+ words) Years after the owners moved out, new people with conflicting deeds moved in. Now the neighborhood has reached a boiling point. In September 2025, a San Francisco real estate agent named Cathy Robles received an email from a man looking to…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (624+ words) A judge blocked the sale, but nothing stopped the family of an accused killer from trying to rent out the scene of the crime. This Outer Sunset rental listing has it all, with a price tag to match: three bedrooms,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1010+ words) Local businesses are reckoning with the reality that a major West Portal development could whiz through the approvals process. When Anna Bullard looks at the shuttered Empire Theater across from her 20-year-old West Portal bookstore, she imagines construction vehicles clogging…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (729+ words) Mayor Lurie has championed OpenGov to fix permitting. His allies made a last-minute change to the contract extension, letting the city exit the software deal more easily. A Board of Supervisors committee on Wednesday unanimously approved extending a contract worth…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1358+ words) Neighborhood politics, tense lease negotiations, and bureaucratic paralysis has left 60 usable shelter beds in limbo. Sixty tiny cabins, purchased by San Francisco for about $7 million to combat homelessness, currently shelter no one. For nearly a year, they’ve sat vacant in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (964+ words) Unlike other Bay Area cities, Berkeley does not have a local camping ban. Now, neighbors say a West Berkeley encampment is spiraling out of control. ABC7 reporter Lyanne Melendez was driving through Berkeley last month when an encampment caught her eye....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (668+ words) One of the Lurie administration’s goals was to begin the overhaul in September 2025. Eighteen months after putting service providers for San Francisco’s homeless population on notice, Mayor Daniel Lurie took a long-awaited step toward overhauling how the city awards at…...