After Year Of Rising Prices, Rents Drop In San Francisco Over Past Month
While rental prices in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have risen this past year, data shows a big drop in rents this past month.
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While rental prices in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have risen this past year, data shows a big drop in rents this past month.
There was a time when the average cost of rentals in San Francisco soared over such other desired locations as New York City and Paris. But then the COVID pandemic struck and rents tumbled as remote workers fled to more affordable locales.
After more than a year of rent declines due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of renting is once again on the rise in the Bay Area, according to a new report.
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston is introducing legislation Tuesday to cancel unpaid rent that small businesses accumulated while they were shut down because of public health orders.
The median rent of a 1-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is down nearly 25% from a year ago, a sign of how much the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Bay Area rental market.
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As COVID cases climb and the exodus from the Bay Area continues, rents are falling with some of the biggest declines are in the South Bay.
Rents in parts of the Bay Area continued to see massive declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the cost of a studio in San Francisco down more than 30 percent compared a year ago.
San Francisco remains the most expensive American city when it comes to renting a one-bedroom apartment, but the monthly hit to the pocketbook will continue to drop amid the exodus from the San Francisco Bay Area of remote workers searching for more affordable housing.
A welcome development for anyone renting in the hot Bay Area market: Rents are dropping slightly after years of steep increases.
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Around 4:19 p.m., multiple people called 911 to report that there was a shooting in the area of Central Avenue and Joseph Street. Officers arrived at the scene and found a person on the ground who was seriously injured. They were given first aid but died, police said.
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The bipartisan effort aims to place harsher penalties on first-time offenders and to close a loophole that allowed drunk drivers in deadly crashes to avoid jail time.
The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center said suspicious conduct or criminal activity flagged by law enforcement will be entered into its database, where it "can link the locations to the information and really tie it all together in near-real time."
Around 4:19 p.m., multiple people called 911 to report that there was a shooting in the area of Central Avenue and Joseph Street. Officers arrived at the scene and found a person on the ground who was seriously injured. They were given first aid but died, police said.
The driver of a stolen vehicle fleeing from San Jose police officers was killed after losing control and crashing over the weekend, police said Tuesday.
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