SF Added More New Housing in 2014 Than It Has in 20 Years
The production of new housing in San Francisco in 2014 reached its highest level in more than 20 years, according to the 2014 San Francisco Housing Inventory report released by SF Planning. There was a net addition of 3,514 units during 2014, a figure that was up 79 percent from 2013 and well above the 10-year average of 2,075 new units per year. The amount of housing produced was also in stark contrast to the lows of several years ago, when the city was still recovering from the housing bust and recession. In 2011, at the absolute lowest point, there was a net addition of just 269 new units to the city. San Francisco's total number of housing units now sits at approximately 379,597. SoMa Tenants Sue Landlord Over Sewage in Sink, Bloody Walls
Forty SoMa tenants have filed suit against their landlords for a litany of nightmarish complaints, including sewage bubbling up in a kitchen sink, prostitution and drug dealing in the hallways, shut-off electricity, and a homeless encampment in the back of the building. The suit, filed in the Superior Court of California last June and first reported on Ratter, also alleges less grody but equally pernicious breaches such as unlawful rent increases, tenant harassment, and a broken fire alarm. The property, a 51-unit building owned by Adib Khouri, is 1751 Market Street at the corner of Valencia. According to Ratter's report, the suit is headed to trial in August.
When the big, fancy flip at 663 Marina Boulevard came on the market last month, we marveled at its $9.5 million price tag. The flippers were aiming for a jump of $5.25 million over the 2013 sale price following a major renovation, but have had to revise their expectations. The six-bedroom home took a $520,000 price cut this week to land at $8.98 million. Of course, that is still easily more than double its 2013 price. [Previously; Redfin]Call for Submissions! See Your Home Featured on Curbed
Mission residents Danny and Steve decorate with upside-down Knoll furniture. Photo via Patricia Chang.We recently launched House Calls, a new series of home tours devoted to the way Bay Area folk live behind closed doors. Some of our first tours brought us to a hidden apartment at Grace Cathedral and a really tiny apartment with a walk-in closet that's been converted into the smallest bedroom we've yet seen. Effective immediately, we're looking for volunteers with offbeat, curious, or just refreshingly cozy dwellings to invite us into their homes for a tour and a photo shoot. Your place doesn't have to be tiny—though we are always interested in how people are making that work. Perhaps you live on a houseboat, or in a converted firehouse, or in a well-kept Eichler, or perched somewhere along one of San Francisco's staircase streets, or even in a Painted Lady.
Just one year after it last sold, the former jewelry wholesale mart at 888 Brannan that now houses Airbnb is back on the market.Airbnb signed a 10-year lease on the space back in 2012, and the building's current owners have rented out all of the spaces that remain during the past year of their ownership. 888 Brannan sold for $185 million last year, meaning that its owners will be looking for even more than that this time around. [WSJ; previously]Adorable Corona Heights Carriage House Condo Asks $789K
Although it is a freestanding and very charming little house, the one-bedroom carriage house at 46 Mars Street is also technically a condo because it shares a parcel of land with an adjacent home. The facade is covered in corrugated siding, and that's just the start of this little home's adorableness. There's a small dining room with a glass corner that looks out onto the pint-sized deck and a kitchen that manages to be both attractive and functional in a small space. The entire home is only 697 square feet, meaning that its $789,000 asking price puts it at $1,132 per square foot. 
Surprise, Tiny Living Enthusiasts Are Making RVs Popular Again
Photo via Vintage RevivalsIt's not just you—RVs are making a comeback. From the many refurbished vintage campers to the new "Five-Star Luxury" Airstreams, it seems these mobile homes are the coolest, most in-demand tiny housing options du jour. As writer Laura Bliss puts it in a new CityLab piece exploring the who and why of the RV's resurgence: "There's no small amount of 'tiny house' ethos implicit in the appeal of these compact, vintage-inspired models: Folks buy these vehicles expecting (and perhaps projecting) a sense of adventure and freedom, reduced belongings, and stylish, simple functionality."
30 Van Ness for Sale; Giants Building a Wall on the Waterfront?
Scene from yesterday's Shut-DownA14 protest at City Hall.
· SF looking to sell 30 Van Ness [SF Chronicle]
· Lawsuit seeks to legalize prostitution in CA [SF Business Times]
· Op-ed: Will Giants rush to a new wall on the waterfront? [Examiner]
· Uber of pot snags Snoop Dogg investment, $10M in funding [SFist]
· Delayed repairs and a no-show after 22nd Street fire [Mission Local]
· Is this "eco pop-up" the solution to Dolores Park Trashgate? [7x7]
· Help Broke-Ass Stuart grow up [Indiegogo]
· 22-Fillmore could see boost from proposed left-turn bans [Hoodline]
· The fascinating, never-ending job of painting the Golden Gate Bridge[CityLab]
· Lawsuit seeks to legalize prostitution in CA [SF Business Times]
· Op-ed: Will Giants rush to a new wall on the waterfront? [Examiner]
· Uber of pot snags Snoop Dogg investment, $10M in funding [SFist]
· Delayed repairs and a no-show after 22nd Street fire [Mission Local]
· Is this "eco pop-up" the solution to Dolores Park Trashgate? [7x7]
· Help Broke-Ass Stuart grow up [Indiegogo]
· 22-Fillmore could see boost from proposed left-turn bans [Hoodline]
· The fascinating, never-ending job of painting the Golden Gate Bridge[CityLab]
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Trace SF's Long-Defunct Train Routes in One BART-Style Map
Map via David EdmondsonDavid Edmondson, who blogs about transportation at the Greater Marin, once used archival timetables to create a map of Marin's Northwestern Pacific Interurban commuter line, which shut down in 1941. Now he's done the same thing for the railroads that crisscrossed the Bay Area, painstakingly reconstructing the routes of every train in the region using a 1937 edition of the Official Guide to the Railways. The resulting infographic mashes up the routes of bygone railways in one new, modern supermap. "While we do have old maps showing where the rails were," Edmondson writes, "these are rail maps, not service maps."
SF Shipyard Kicks Off Second Round of Home Sales; Prices Start in Low $500Ks
The San Francisco Shipyard has officially begun sales on its second release of homes just a month after selling out its first release. And while the first release saw prices that started in the mid-$400,000s for a one-bedroom condo, prices for the second release will start in the low $500,000s for a one-bedroom condo and range to the high $800,000s for a three-bedroom townhouse. That's well above the first release, where prices topped out at $670,000 for a three-bedroom, but still below average prices for the city. 159 units in two buildings are up for grabs in this round of sales. Condo Prices in San Francisco Soar to Record Levels
The condos at Rockwell are about to start selling.Will the prices of new condos being built in San Francisco ever slow their upward march? In the first half of last year, San Francisco saw huge prices in the per-square-foot pricing of newly built condos, and $1,000 or more per square became the new norm. Now, according to the latest report from the Mark Company, the city has now reached $1,257 per square foot for new condo construction, up 22 percent over the same time last year. That price, which is meant to track the value of a new condo without being swayed by changes in inventory, represents the expected price per square foot of a new 10th-floor, 1000-square-foot condo.
At Just 291 Square Feet, SF's Tiniest Condo Sells for $415K
When the smallest condo for sale in San Francisco hit the market last month looking for just $299K, we elected to think of it as a particularly spacious walk-in-closet—plus a bay window!—and admired the bright room, even if it was a bit dubiously spacious looking (sleight-of-lens giveaway: a way-too-wide front door). Despite the appearance two weeks later of an even smaller Cow Hollow TIC, condo-wise, this SoMa unit remained the smallest available, until a buyer snapped it up for $415,000 cash. We had heard the contract price would clear $400K; the final closing price works out to $1,426 per square, and about 39 percent over the asking price. Most members of our Under $500K Club don't remain under $500K come closing time, so at least we know a tiny, tiny slice of SF can still be had for less than half a mil?
For $1.895M, a Pretty Cottage Spared By the 1906 Earthquake
Though the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed most of the city, one place where the devastating blaze stopped was the 1300 block of Russian Hill's Greenwich Street, the site of this wood-framed cottagenow on the market for $1.895M. Built in the 1880s by a local butcher, the home was originally a single-story structure with an attic and basement. It was fully renovated in 1922 and again in the late 1950s, during which the living room was extended and a new staircase, windows, and roof deck (with Golden Gate Bridge views) were added.
Sad Chart Confirms SF Isn't Adding New Housing Fast Enough
Background graphic: Percentage of housing supply need met, 2007-2014, via the San Francisco Business TimesBetween 2007 and 2014, San Francisco granted permits to 16,449 new housing units, just 53 percent of the 31,193 total it needed to keep up with population growth, as projected by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). The city's dismal performance just about guarantees more graphs (like this one) summing up our equally dismal building record in the years to come. Meanwhile, Oakland met just 26 percent of its identified need, permitting just 3,852 units out of a needed 14,629. ABAG tallied up the results from the entire Bay Area in one handy but depressing spreadsheet, reported the San Francisco Business Times.
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