New Curves at 100 Years Plus
Bondo and paint - the carpenter’s equivalent of Botox - no longer works. The old girl needed completely new sashes.
View Article1880 Mission: A Tale of Bikes and Factories
There are many reasons why one real estate developer succeeds where others have failed, but when Avant Housing broke ground in mid-October on a 202-unit complex at Mission and 15th streets, one of its...
View Article3100 17th Street: How One Block Changed
When Lutz Plumbing first came to the 3100 block of 17th Street in 1982, Susie Hotarek was afraid to leave the building on foot. Employees would drive into the building through the garage entrance and...
View ArticleOdd Buildings: A Historic SRO on 16th Street
The Mission is full of buildings that give one the sense that something interesting is happening inside. We call them Odd Buildings, and this is an occasional series on their stories. The words...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Battle Erupts on Valencia
A developer's request to pay a deferred fee rather than build affordable housing units on site has become the focus of concerns about affordable housing.
View ArticleWider Sidewalk Plan for Dolores St. Satisfies City and Developer, Divides...
San Francisco developer Prado Group Inc. is seeking city approval for a project to drastically expand the sidewalks at the intersection of Market and Dolores streets.
View ArticleA Former Convent Becomes a Refuge for the Poor
“Imagine, compared to the street and the shelter, this is heaven,” said one resident.
View ArticleMission Rents Exposed and Dissected
The real fun comes from looking at the data and converting it into wild speculation, subterfuge, and conspiracy theorem. Make some comments.
View ArticleSan Francisco Rental Prices at All-Time High, to Absolutely No One’s Surprise
As Executive Editor Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian noted, Bay Area rents may be “too damn high,” but both rents and home prices have continued to increase drastically, even during the...
View ArticleSupe. Chiu Proposes Tenants Buy Their Buildings
Board of Supervisor David Chiu proposed Tuesday that tenants get the right of first refusal when their buildings go up for sale. In similar legislation adopted in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD and...
View ArticleLove and Real Estate
San Francisco is becoming increasingly like New York in the 1980s — all people do is talk about real estate. Trulia offers a discussion for the Valentine’s Day Dinner on whether it makes more sense to...
View ArticleThe 1978 Housing Crisis in 7 Clips, Clip 1
We first ran this series — The Housing Crisis of 1978 in Seven Clips — in 2010. We will also be looking at the next jump in housing prices that occurred in the late 1990s. This introduction tells you...
View ArticleState Senate Committee Rejects Ellis Act Reform
A Senate committee voted 19-18 against the legislation by Mark Leno to reform the Ellis Act, according to a report in SF Gate. It does so just as Mission Local reports that planned affordable housing...
View Article16th and Mission Project Foes Ponder Next Move
The band Revolt was halfway through its set at the 16th and Mission plaza on Saturday afternoon when the lead singer announced the next song, ‘Dissent,’ which is about displacement. The trio smashed...
View ArticleTenants at 14-Unit Building Saved From Eviction
At the end of May, the San Francisco Community Land Trust announced that it had helped the residents of 2976 23rd Street – known as the Merry Go Round House to purchase their 14-unit building. “This...
View ArticleHousing’s Latest Legislation, a User’s Guide
Last week was a full one in the legislative debate about fixing San Francisco’s housing crisis. Here at Mission Local HQ we could barely keep up with all the various proposals, amendments and votes....
View ArticleGoogle VP Promises Action for Evicted Tenant
After interrupting Google I/O to protest her potential eviction from a building owned by Google lawyer Jack Halprin, Claudia Tirado was escorted off stage and told us she had a surprisingly friendly...
View ArticleSan Francisco Has New Ideas for Homelessness
San Francisco is trying several new ideas to combat homelessness after a ten-year-long attempt to place homeless people in permanent housing has not succeeded, reported SF Gate. The article is part a...
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