Tag: Francisco’s

06 NOV

San Francisco’s second largest tech employer, Uber, won’t take sides on the controversial homelessness measure that the city’s tech execs are fighting about (CRM)

Proposition C is a ballot measure in San Francisco that would tax the city’s largest corporations to provide relief in the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis.  San Francisco’s biggest tech employer, Salesforce, and its CEO, Marc Benioff, have been the biggest advocates in favor of Prop C.  The city’s second largest tech employer, Uber, has been […]

30 SEP

This arcade is really vintage: Visiting San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique

Enlarge / Look through the window and see your future! (credit: Marlowe Bangeman) We saw a lot on our family vacation to California this summer: epic coastline views, acre after acre of almond groves, forest fires, and Venice Beach, to name a few things. Thanks to friends and colleagues, we had a long list of […]

21 SEP

Silvercar Adds Rental Location No. 25 at San Francisco’s Union Square

Silvercar Adds 25th Location at San Fran’s Union Square Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]

19 AUG

San Francisco’s housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say they can’t afford homes

HBO The San Francisco Bay Area’s housing market is so bleak, even tech workers are struggling to buy a home there. A survey by Blind found that 59% of employees at Bay Area tech companies said they cannot afford homes. Cisco, eBay, and Intuit had the highest percentage of employees who said home ownership is […]

02 APR

The situation at San Francisco’s sinking skyscraper is so dire that the most expensive condo has sold for $1 million under the asking price

Justin Sullivan/Getty Residents at Millennium Tower, San Francisco’s leaning, sinking skyscraper, are scrambling to sell their multimillion-dollar condos. Apartment 401, the most expensive condo for sale at Millennium Tower in 2017, has sold for over $ 1 million under its asking price. Millennium Tower is safe to occupy, though residents are still leaving.   The […]

25 DEC

The situation at San Francisco’s sinking skyscraper is so dire, residents are selling their condos at a loss of millions

Millennium Tower, a luxury residential building in San Francisco, has sunk 17 inches and tilted 14 inches since it was completed in 2008. Residents say they’re selling multimillion-dollar condos at a loss. A two-bedroom, three-bath unit at Millennium Tower sold in December 2017 for 30% less than what it sold for in 2013.   The […]

25 DEC

San Francisco’s housing shortage is so bad that an $8 billion development is rising on a former nuclear test site — here’s what it’s like

Melia Robinson/Business Insider A sprawling middle-class neighborhood is rising on the site of the retired San Francisco Naval Shipyard in Hunters Point. But before residents arrived at this long-forgotten patch of the city’s waterfront, the area was home to a federally run nuclear test site. In a secret laboratory used for decades after World War […]

07 NOV

Airbnb taps San Francisco’s biggest landlord for short-term rentals

Airbnb is recruiting San Francisco’s largest landlord to allow tenants to offer their apartments as short-term rentals. In return for Veritas Investments serving up five of its buildings, Airbnb will give it a cut of the nightly revenue (10 percent, according to the San Francisco Chronicle), as part of the incentives it launched a year […]