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SACRAMENTO - California will shield struggling tenants from eviction for at least three more months, as the state acted Monday to renew protections that were set to expire this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's no secret that the Bay Area has some of the highest rents in the nation. But that still might be less expensive than buying a home, data shows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California will shield struggling tenants from eviction for at least three more months and attempt to pay off all of the rent lower-income residents missed during the coronavirus pandemic under a deal announced Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with just days to go before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Franciscans struggling to pay rent in the pandemic will have another six-month reprieve after the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to extend a city eviction moratorium that mirrors the state's protections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with less than a week before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Franciscans struggling to pay rent in the pandemic will have another six-month reprieve after the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to extend a city eviction moratorium that mirrors the state's protections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unlike the rest of the country, Bay Area home buyers are seeing more options on the market compared with last year - but those houses are more expensive than ever and buyers are snapping them up within days, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco planning department's recent push to encourage landlords to convert common spaces into housing units has resulted in nearly 500 new or legalized units as property owners carve basement apartments out of what used to be storage lockers, laundry rooms or garages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When voters approved a tax hike on San Francisco's most expensive property sales in November, they likely thought the funds would go directly to rent relief and affordable housing - as advertised in the campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When COVID-19 closed the doors of Tracey Sylvester's Pilates studio in the Mission in March 2020, she burned through her business and personal savings to pay rent for four months. She then negotiated with her landlord to pay half rent. She got two rounds of federal relief and a loan she'll be paying back for the next 30 years, but she still owes about $46,000 in back rent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of Bay Area renters who have fallen behind on payments during the pandemic could soon see that debt reduced, thanks to $2.6 billion in new rent relief funding announced Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Vaccine appointments are open, spring flowers are blooming and San Francisco tech giants like Salesforce are plotting their employees' return. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rents in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area continue creeping back up, although they have a long way to go before they catch up to their pre-pandemic highs, new data show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The same apartment complex on Alabama Street in San Francisco's Mission District has been home to four generations of Deborah Carlos' family. It's where she was raised, where she left in the early '90s to protect her son from gang violence, where she moved back a decade later to care for her mother and where her grandchildren were born. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's median apartment rent rose 3.4% in March from the prior month, the biggest increase since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's median apartment rent rose 3.4% in March from the prior month, the biggest increase since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A new city report unveiled Thursday estimates unpaid commercial rent in San Francisco from April to December 2020 to be between $172.1 million and $404.5 million. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anyone who wants to get into a San Francisco apartment while prices are still relatively low should probably move fast. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco residents abandoned the city in droves during the first eight months of the pandemic, but they generally did not venture very far, according to new data from the United States Postal Service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California will freeze evictions for some struggling tenants for five more months as it prepares to give out billions of dollars in rent relief. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Housing activists shut down the Santa Clara County downtown courthouse for hours Wednesday morning in a protest aimed at stalling scheduled eviction proceedings while calling attention to the plight of people being thrown out of their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have agreed to extend California's partial eviction moratorium by five more months as they prepare to hand out billions of dollars in federal rent relief to struggling tenants and property owners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Jose housing rental prices were down 13.7% in December over the previous year. That was the nation's sharpest decline, according to a new report, and San Francisco wasn't far behind. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's rental housing market is starting the new year much as it ended the old one: Rents are dropping, vacancies are climbing, and landlords and tenants alike are muddling through the pandemic's 10th month without knowing when - or whether - life and work will return to normal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's housing rental market saw the most dramatic changes among all U.S. cities last year during the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's rental housing market is starting the new year much as it ended the old one: Rents are dropping, vacancies are climbing, and landlords and tenants alike are muddling through the pandemic's ninth month without knowing when - or if - life and work will return to normal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the past year, Bay Area rental prices have plummeted at a historic pace as people fled the ultra-pricey market during the pandemic. But data shows that many didn't look too far away for their next home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Regarding "Fear keeps schools closed, in spite of low virus rates" (Front Page, Dec. 9): With a surge of new coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and COVID-19 deaths being reported in California and across the U.S., it's truly disappointing to read a front page article calling for the reopening of public schools. There might be some wealthy local districts or private schools with small class sizes that have the financial means to ensure the safety and health of their staff and students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eight months ago, Aleida Ramirez managed a pizza restaurant in Alamo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More evidence shows that San Francisco's astronomical rent prices are plummeting closer to earth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Housing rents continue to decline in the Bay Area amid the coronavirus pandemic, especially in San Francisco, which has notoriously had the country's highest rental prices after overtaking New York City years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco small businesses are struggling to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic, sparking fights that include four tenants clashing with the same landlord in the Castro neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco 49ers said Thursday they will pay the $2.7 million September rent for Levi's Stadium after the Santa Clara Stadium Authority Board voted on Tuesday to authorize a claim for arbitration against the football team for "unpaid facility rent." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California has a new partial eviction moratorium, the result of a last-minute push by state legislators to prevent struggling renters from being kicked out of their homes when courts reopen this week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - On an acrimonious final night of its session, the Legislature approved a bill to head off evictions of tenants who have been unable to pay their rent because of the coronavirus pandemic and to keep out-of-work Californians in their homes through the beginning of next year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - California tenants who have been unable to pay rent because of the coronavirus pandemic would be shielded from eviction and those who miss payments going forward could stay in their homes for at least five months, under a legislative proposal introduced Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - State lawmakers nearing a deadline for action to avert mass evictions of California tenants who can't pay their rent because of the coronavirus pandemic are working on a measure that is likely to provide only a short-term solution, those involved in the negotiations say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a normal political climate, a proposal to freeze rents in San Francisco would likely elicit at least some degree of protest from property owners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Summer in the Bay Area usually brings a flood of interns, students and new workers who fill spare rooms and snatch up months-long Airbnb vacancies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The California Senate declined on Thursday to advance a bill that would have banned commercial evictions statewide and allowed some retail tenants to break leases during the coronavirus crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Brittany Casciotti could really use the $17,147.94 that belongs to her, but she can't touch it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The coronavirus pandemic is driving rents down in San Francisco and across the region, reshaping a housing market that for the past decade has generated enormous profits for residential developers while displacing tens of thousands of workers from the inner Bay Area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rent relief could be coming for the hundreds of small businesses on property owned by the city of San Francisco - though the businesses' owners largely haven't heard anything about it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are no more clear bowls of pho, crispy imperial rolls or garlicky wok-fried noodles at Green Papaya, a San Francisco restaurant owned by Thai Van. The South of Market Vietnamese spot at the base of the Fifth and Mission Parking Garage has reliably fed hungry convention-goers for more than 10 years, but with the nearby Moscone Center closed, the windows are boarded up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly 6% of San Francisco tenants were unable to pay April rent because of income lost due to the coronavirus pandemic and the shelter-in-place order that has brought economic activity to a halt throughout the region, according to a survey from the San Francisco Apartment Association. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a two-month halt Friday on evictions for Californians who cannot pay their rent because of the coronavirus. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]