17+ hour, 53+ min ago   (734+ words) The San Francisco Standard Whoever wins the November race for District 10 supervisor will have plenty on his plate: a potential moratorium on data centers, the rental crisis, and what to do with 60 tiny cabins for unhoused people that are sitting…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (456+ words) The mayor has built his brand on fiscal restraint and business ties. This week, he swung toward labor and renters, his biggest political turn yet. In the last 48 hours, Mayor Daniel Lurie made two moves likely to surprise those who…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (556+ words) Rental prices have surged in San Francisco more than anywhere else in the country in the last year. With housing scarce and the cost of renting an apartment skyrocketing, Mayor Daniel Lurie plans to declare a rent emergency on Thursday....

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (336+ words) The arrangement provides a 12% wage increase through 2031, according to a spokesperson for one of the city’s unions. In a preemptive move to avert labor friction, Mayor Daniel Lurie has secured an early labor deal with 10 unions representing 24,000 city employees, according…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1010+ words) Local businesses are reckoning with the reality that a major West Portal development could whiz through the approvals process. When Anna Bullard looks at the shuttered Empire Theater across from her 20-year-old West Portal bookstore, she imagines construction vehicles clogging…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (729+ words) Mayor Lurie has championed OpenGov to fix permitting. His allies made a last-minute change to the contract extension, letting the city exit the software deal more easily. A Board of Supervisors committee on Wednesday unanimously approved extending a contract worth…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (402+ words) GrowSF, SEIU, and other unlikely allies say Rafael Mandelman’s move to strip Bilal Mahmood of committee seats amounts to political retaliation. It isn’t every day that one of the city’s influential moderate political groups and its largest public-sector unions stand…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (140+ words) The San Francisco Standard Cartoon: San Francisco’s hot new real estate listing Nothing is safe in SF’s bidding wars. Do you want to weigh in on the issues facing San Francisco and beyond? Have a compelling personal narrative to share?...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (693+ words) The San Francisco Standard...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (523+ words) As rents skyrocket, developers are predicting a building boom in the next two years. It’s a tale as old as time. Legislators pass a law to make it easier to build homes, but nothing gets built because of factors beyond…...