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The Marin Community Foundation is providing a $724,500 grant to support residents at Golden Gate Village in Marin City. Approximately $147,000 will go toward unpaid rent for 64 households, averaging about $2,300 per household.
Median rents in San Francisco again reached record highs in September, with the price of a one-bedroom almost closing the gap with New York City, a new report finds.
San Francisco's already hot rental market appears to show no signs of slowing down, as the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the city has passed the $6,000 mark, a new report finds.
The cost of renting a home, which surged during the pandemic, is showing signs of returning to earth, new data shows.
Rents in the 50 largest cities have surged by hundreds of dollars per month over the last five years, a LendingTree analysis found.
Since the pandemic, the monthly rent for a typical apartment around the U.S. has surged almost 30% to $1,858, Zillow data shows.
While having some of the highest rents in the nation, renting a home in San Francisco and San Jose is nearly 200% cheaper than paying a mortgage for one, a new study finds.
Real estate software company RealPage has filed a federal lawsuit against city officials in Berkeley that have become the latest to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents.
The Berkeley City Council recently voted to ban rent pricing technology that uses artificial intelligence, saying the tools are being used to unfairly manipulate the rental market and drive prices up.
After a long and somewhat fraught public process, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday finally approved a new ordinance to protect renters from unscrupulous evictions.
An Alameda County Superior Court judge recently ended a three year long battle between a houseboat neighborhood and a new property manager's proposed rate hikes and fee increases.
A church on the Peninsula that has been helping families for decades as part of its mission faces an uncertain future, with a rent hike on the horizon.
Though a growing industry, build-to-rent communities made up only 7.9% of new residential constructions last year.
Millions of Americans are struggling to keep up with the rising rent, while buyers say the housing market is "nuts." What in the world is going on?
The DOJ alleges RealPage colluded with landlords to inflate rental housing prices, harming millions of Americans.
After a year of contract negotiations with Sutter Health company for an increase in wages and on-site security, dozens of medical interns and resident physicians rallied in protest at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco on Monday.
Airbnb says its profit fell 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier, as higher income taxes cut into the short-term rental giant's bottom line even as bookings and revenue rose.
After years of soaring housing costs, renters are getting some relief as the Federal Reserve looks to extinguish inflation.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were considering a new ordinance to ban an industry algorithm that some say is artificially causing apartment rental rates to skyrocket.
The Biden administration wants a new law that would cap annual rent increases at no more than 5% — or landlords would lose a major tax break.
As expensive as it can be to live and work in the Bay Area, one East Bay city is seeing a significant drop in rent prices.
Over 1,600 signatures were submitted to the San Pablo city clerk by activists Tuesday for a renter protection legislation package to go on the November ballot.
Concord passed a tenant-protection ordinance much to the delight of housing rights advocates. Now the new law is on hold as the landlords scramble to put the issue before the voters.
After seven years of discussions -- and to cheers in the council chamber -- the Concord City Council passed a rent stabilization ordinance Tuesday night, joining other Contra Costa County cities like Richmond and Antioch in controlling how much landlords can raise rents annually.
The Concord City Council will again take up a possible rent stabilization ordinance on Tuesday that would also require landlords have just cause before evicting tenants.
