Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning and construction news. We hear a lot about median income, but that metric isn’t necessarily an indicator […]
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Developments in development: Too many jobs?
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning and construction news. In what might be an annual tradition, Curbed brings us another potentially controversial statement […]
Developments in Development: Cooling off
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning and construction news. Riding on the coattails of last week’s fuss around a good chunk of millennials […]
Developments in development: awkward relief
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction new You know, in a time when San Francisco reportedly saw the biggest year-over-year rent […]
Developments in development: Affordable for whom?
Every time the words “affordable housing” are used in local media, commenters appear and argue about the phrase. Either they’re frustrated that, in a region where someone thinks it’s okay […]
Developments in Development: Catching Up
While the rest of San Francisco is caught up in a years-long flurry of construction activity, a lot where activists and tenants alike have waited for something to be developed […]
Developments in Development: Right, Commodity, or Investment?
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction news. How should we treat housing? As a commodity like bread or gas? As an […]
Developments in Development: The Bright Side
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction news. Sure, this place might be on fire more or less constantly, but at least […]
Developments in Development: 16th Place
Developments in Development is a weekly column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction news. For all the hubbub about how everyone wants to live here and the influx […]
Developments in Development: Time Lapse
A good chunk of the discussion about housing affordability comes down to how long a tenant has been in a building constructed before 1979  – 30 days to secure tenants […]
Developments in Development: Decisions and Limbo
Developments in Development is a weekly column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction news. The nuns have won! It only took 20,000 signatures and three hours of testimony […]
Developments in Development: The Road Ahead
Developments in Development is a weekly column recapping real estate, business, planning, zoning and construction news. It’s over! Now on to the next mess that will be 2017. And much […]
Developments in development: Home of the Rich
You knew the city was changing – now here are some number that illustrate how. The population turnover citywide has resulted in huge shifts. More white, Latino and Asian people […]
Developments in Development: Turmoil Ahead?
San Franciscans, I think, have long had a sense that somehow homelessness here is worse than elsewhere – while theories about why that might be vary, to say the least, […]
Developments in Development: Take a Breath
It has been a week full of revelations on the housing front, but before I get into that, let’s take a moment to consider that rents have dipped, again. At […]