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I'd Buy That for a Dollar: S.F.-Area Home Sales Surge

Prices for homes here in San Francisco have dropped from preposterous to merely ridiculous -- and, as a result, sales are up. Way up.In December, 19.7 percent more homebuyers took the plunge than one month earlier. The December 2008 sales numbers represented a 36 percent leap from December 2007 sale ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Meet the Guardian's Imaginary Friend and Congratulate the Department of Technology on Its Fictitous $750,000 Tech Center

When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

Dogs also losing their homes in foreclosure

When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

Why Obama's mortgage-relief program failed

When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

Jerry Brown Announces $2 Billion Settlement with Wells Fargo

Hope you've got room in there for the billions you owe Californians...​The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that Wells Fargo has agreed in a settlement to offer home-loan modifications worth $2 billion, and will also pay $32 million in restitution to borrowers who lost their ... More >>

San Francisco Woman Granted Restraining Order Against Wells Fargo

Read the Fine Print​A San Francisco judge has temporarily blocked Wells Fargo Bank from kicking another resident out of her home.Court documents show that Keng Hee Paik, a San Francisco resident, filed a restraining order against Wells Fargo after the bank started foreclosure proceedings on her Su ... More >>

Bayview Woman to Break into Her Foreclosed Home, Reclaim it

Fibonacci Blue via Flickr Reclaiming what's yours​The list of places being occupied by people who are mad as hell is growing. Justin Herman Plaza has been taken over by an encampment of OccupySF protesters, and others are lining Market Street by the Federal Reserve Bank to protest "corporate greed ... More >>

Move Your Money Day: San Francisco Residents to Dump Their Banks

​In what could be the first practical request by the Occupy Movement yet, protesters are asking everyone across the nation to take part in the "Move Your Money Day" tomorrow and divert their investments from big banks. It might seem ambitious, but considering how the mass exodus of customers from ... More >>

San Francisco Homeowners Evicted, but Refuse to Leave

God damn you, Bank of America!​If Occupy SF has done anything useful, it's inspire the community to find new ways to stand up to big banks. Last week, we told readers about how members of the Occupy movement are establishing a credit union in San Francisco. And today, housing advocates are joining ... More >>

Timeless -- and Timely -- as Ever

God damn you, Bank of America!​If Occupy SF has done anything useful, it's inspire the community to find new ways to stand up to big banks. Last week, we told readers about how members of the Occupy movement are establishing a credit union in San Francisco. And today, housing advocates are joining ... More >>

For the Bob Cratchit in Us All

God damn you, Bank of America!​If Occupy SF has done anything useful, it's inspire the community to find new ways to stand up to big banks. Last week, we told readers about how members of the Occupy movement are establishing a credit union in San Francisco. And today, housing advocates are joining ... More >>

Occupy Oakland: Protesters Arrested While Occupying Foreclosed Home

Oakland has no shortage of foreclosed homes to occupy ​A day after police cleared them out of a camp in West Oakland, Occupy protesters took over a foreclosed home, which they were attempting to claim as a meeting space. Like every other occupation, this one also went awry. As KGO reports, police ... More >>