In light of social-distancing orders, and in preparation for Memorial Day weekend, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department placed social-distancing circles, measuring roughly six feet in ...

A staple of Victorian architecture, the bay window—an often-cantilevered series of windows that form an alcove—deserves far better than its common, uninspired fate as a home for an oversize flatscreen ...

On April 7, local resident Jack Dorsey—the cofounder and CEO of publicly traded Twitter and Square, and a billionaire several times over—announced he was devoting more than a quarter of his fortune to ...

The Richmond City Council considered this week whether to suspend both rent and mortgage payments in what would have been the most provocative housing protection measure taken by any Bay Area city in ...

Gates at the West Portal station are blocked with caution tape following the temporary closure of stations. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took just a few minutes Tuesday to pass an emergency order indefinitely cancelling rent increases on rent-controlled homes, the latest City Hall bid to shield ...

San Francisco’s civic government can seize seemingly any privately-owned land or buildings as part of its effort to protect people from the COVID-19 outbreak. In fact, according to San Francisco City ...

Although San Francisco renters can’t be evicted right now if they fail to pay rent on account of the ongoing public health emergency, tenants will remain on the hook for rent owed during the ...

Cities across the Bay Area can help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and make pedestrians happier at the same time by eliminating one of the least efficient elements of transit design—the ...

Many SF hotels, like the Intercontinental San Francisco, have lit up their exterior windows in the shape of a heart. Brock Keeling City Hall still can’t agree about how to protect San Francisco’s ...

Crowds gather at Civic Center for the celebration during the 2018 San Francisco Pride. Photo by Arun Nevader/Getty Images Update: San Francisco Pride has announced it will be canceled this year. “This ...

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the Bay Area, San Francisco’s home sales inventory have nearly vanished. In the weeks since Bay Area counties began following shelter-in-place orders, ...