SF Is Moving People Living on the Street Right Into Empty Homes ...

How many vacant houses are there really in the Bay Area?

But for at least a decade it has sat unoccupied — one of an estimated 46,000 such homes in the five-county Bay Area. It's a surprising number in ...

“Housing Is Health”: Calls Grow for California to Give Vacant Homes ...

As the state braces for a surge in cases, tens of thousands of people are living on the streets. A recent study estimates that nearly 2,600 ...

Vacant skyscrapers, empty trains: can San Francisco once again ...

“It's in the public interest to get housing in a building that would otherwise be an empty office, and so we're going to essentially waive ...

City to implement Empty Homes Tax despite legal challenges | Politics

The San Francisco Apartment Association and other real estate groups sued San Francisco over its new empty homes tax, which took effect on ...

What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America

Today San Francisco has what is perhaps the most deserted major downtown in America. On any given week, office buildings are at about 40 percent ...

Drone footage compares San Francisco streets at the ... - ABC7 News

At the start of the first stay-at-home order issued in March, San Francisco streets were fairly empty, indicating that people were staying home.

SF Has Tens of Thousands of Empty Apartments - Matt Charnock

“In 2019, the most recent year reported, there were 40,458 total housing units vacant in San Francisco, or approximately ten percent of the ...

I Left San Francisco for Portland. Do I Miss the City? Yes. Will I Ever ...

A person holding a potted plant in a living room that's empty except for moving boxes ... ”) In that packed seven-person house, I met a ...

54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to ...

San Francisco can build more housing to accommodate a higher population or let its poorest citizens get priced out. Either way people will not ...

San Francisco passes strongest vacant housing speculation tax

Last year, there were 7,700 people living in shelters or on the street in the city by the bay, according to city figures. Meanwhile, there ...

San Francisco's continued homeless sweeps making things worse ...

"It's really just moving people across the street and back, across the street ... in putting large numbers of people into shelter and housing. And that's ...

The Coronavirus Spurs a Movement of People Reclaiming Vacant ...

In mid-March, a group of homeless and housing-insecure people calling themselves the Reclaimers took possession of eleven vacant houses in a ...

Vacancy tax can 'move the needle' amid larger housing crisis

During the pre-pandemic housing boom, roughly 10 percent of the city's residential units, or some 40000 units, sat empty, according to a ...

Housing Bubble 2 in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Lost its Mojo ...

It is the scramble for the exits in Hong Kong as Canada has a foreign buyers tax besides the empty house tax. ... people moving in generally. The ...

housing crisis - Curbed SF

housing crisis ; The house on Magnolia Street. Even before Moms 4 Housing was evicted from 2928 Magnolia, racism and capitalism shaped the home's history. ; As ...

Editorial: Newsom and San Francisco take a wrong turn on ... - Yahoo

In the most recent count, the number of unsheltered homeless people in the city dropped 10.4 % while the number living in shelters rose by 17.7% ...

Too many empty homes in San Jose? There could be a penalty tax ...

Commissioners Alex Shoor and Huy Tran on Thursday will propose that city officials consider a tax on vacant properties to penalize homeowners for keeping them ...

Marina & Cow Hollow Real Estate | Houses & Homes for Sale in SF

... empty house, down at ... 13,562 people live in Marina/Cow Hollow, where ... Cow Hollow View Home. 2580 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. $5,995,000.

Homelessness and vacant houses - by Matthew Yglesias

To the extent that the observation “vacant units exist” supports the intuition that there's simply no reason for people to be out on the streets ...

My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and ...

Pethokoukis: What was going on with housing prices and housing affordability from the war to the 1970s? Was it kind of flattish? People were ...