Residential Real Estate Management and Development

Wells Fargo Controls One-Third of This Year's U.S. Mortages

This past spring, about a dozen housing advocates marched up Russian Hill to Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf's house, to protest the steady stream of foreclosures in San Francisco. On another day, they bused over to Los Altos and Hillsborough, to the respective homes of a couple of the bank's board memb ... More >>

America's Cup: Deal Nearly Funded Race with Pricey Condos

City Prepares to Sell Land at 30 Cents on the Dollar

Clubhouses are one thing. But condos? ​"Doing well by doing good" is a notion that always churns up feelings of ambivalence. So does city land-use. And while the city hopes to do good by selling a parcel of land to the Boys and Girls Club for a clubhouse at not quite 30 percent of its assessed val ... More >>

Unlike Pleasanton, San Francisco Keeps its Anti-Housing Laws Off the Books

When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

'How's Business?' San Francisco Builder: 'What Business?' -- Home Construction Totals Hit Bottom, Start to Dig

The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

Houseboats? Houseboats!

SF Weekly Letters

Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

Arrested Development

Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors

The Looking-Glass Campaign

For Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez, ideological labels may be misleading, or even drawkcab

Legends in Our Own Minds

A new report shows the housing shortage wasn't caused by the dot-com boom -- but by lack of housing construction

Axing Permission

Everyone who needs an affordable apartment loses when NIMBYs get to appeal housing permits to the Board of Supervisors

A Primer on Housing

See the supervisors posture. See them learn. See them approve housing.

The Case for Ending Rent Control

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs