I must have angered the universe with my last happy-go-lucky, things-are-looking-up column because now there is tension, fear, but most of all uncertainty in the air. By that I do […]
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Developments in Development: Short Term
Fur is flying nationwide as cities around the country figure out how to deal with the housing arm of the sharing economy – short term rentals, a.k.a. Airbnb. Locally, District […]
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Developments in Development: A Toolkit from Above
Build ye, build ye, lest the housing crisis smite you! That’s what I’m reading this week in the development world – at its highest up, the command came from none […]
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Developments in Development: Rays of Light
Yes, rents are still nuts, yes, only the rich can afford to move here…and yet, most of what I’ve seen floating around this week is kinda positive. I don’t mean […]
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Developments in Development: Where to Go?
Voters seem to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with tech – at least that’s what Curbed has found when comparing a recent survey of voters (commissioned by the […]
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Developments in Development: It’s a Wash
Looks like we’re not going to conquer Brisbane, after all, folks…at least according to Chuck Nevius, who writes in his column that the idea is off the table. Though the […]
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Developments in Development: Afloat
Former mayor Art Agnos has a game changer for homelessness: Put ‘em on a boat! Create a new Navigation Center on a retired Navy ship, to be specific. The idea […]
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Developments in Development: Reverse
With two anti-displacement measures now facing high-level pushback, the San Francisco Supervisors must feel positively Sisyphean. London Breed is in the nation’s capital trying to resuscitate a neighborhood preference law that […]
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Developments in Development: Arguments
Is it just me, or is the fur flying this week in the discussion of how to fix this housing mess? Everyone wants housing costs to come down, but there […]
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Developments in Development: Are we happy yet?
San Francisco’s renters are giving the city top marks – in everything except affordability, of course, where they give it the equivalent of blowing a raspberry. That’s according to a […]
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Developments in Development: What to Build, Closures and a New Pizza Place
More throwbacks this week: Anti-tech flyers have appeared across from Zeitgeist, protesting a proposed housing development that would replace an Oil Changers on Valencia and Duboce. Actually, that kind of […]
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Developments in Development: No Light
If you hoped that there is a light at the end of the tunnel where maybe housing prices would become sane again, don’t, says Curbed. They used an analysis from AppFolio, […]
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Developments in Development: Game On
I’ve already made a stupid joke in this column about development, real estate, and gentrification not being a game when a game was made about it. But woe is me, […]
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Developments in Development: Déjà Vu
Does this sound uncomfortably familiar to anyone? Bloomberg reports that “Silicon Valley Elites Get Home Loans With No Money Down” and that “As the tech boom starts to show signs […]
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Developments in Development: Accessible Accessories
A San Francisco conundrum: There’s a shortage of affordable rental units, but affordable rental units are not being built fast enough. Enter the in-law unit, long a popular asset in […]
