Two new studies confirm that Bay Area rents are softening, after years of double-digit increases. The San Francisco metro area saw average rents decline year over year for the first time in more than ...

Rents in the most expensive cities in the United States are no longer rising relentlessly, but the most expensive markets have not changed. Among the 10 most expensive markets, according to research ...

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The concept of rent control, once found mostly in large cities, is spreading to the Bay Area’s suburbs, even though virtually every economist thinks it’s a bad idea. Six Bay Area cities have measures ...

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Katie Sarna left San Francisco due to high rent and bought a house in Boulder Creek, California. She and her husband faced challenges in the competitive housing market and mortgage approval process.

San Francisco Bay Area rent prices are notoriously high, but one graduate student managed to avoid them. He simply commuted 92,089 miles from his home in Los Angeles to the University of California, ...

A major test of rent control as a way to solve the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis met mixed results at the polls last week. Initiatives to establish formal rent-control programs appear to be on ...

A Bay Area professional has opened up about how he spent three months living in his car after landing a job at Google.

Bill Zhou flew to UC Berkeley from Los Angeles three times a week for an academic year to avoid paying Bay Area rent. The transportation fanatic paid for most of his flights using frequent-flyer miles ...