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The bank that's got your mortgage lender's back

by Amy Scott and Sean McHenry
Nov 14, 2024
Alanna McCargo of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco discusses the bank's role in the region's housing affordability challenges.
"Affordability has been a long-time challenge," said Alanna McCargo, head of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.
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Adventures in Housing

How a row of “Painted Ladies” became San Francisco ambassadors

by Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 5, 2024
The homes represent the city's ideals, a local architectural historian says: cherishing the past and “always looking to the future.”
The juxtaposition of old Victorian homes against a backdrop of skyscrapers makes the "Painted Ladies” of Steiner Street a popular tourist destination.
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Tapping entrepreneurs for sustainable solutions to San Francisco's problems

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Aug 21, 2023
The World Economic Forum, Salesforce and Deloitte team up to solicit ideas for revitalizing the tech and financial center.
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San Francisco struggles with downtown recovery

by Nova Safo
Aug 15, 2023
Geolocation data shows the same level of foot traffic now, as in late March 2020.
An empty storefront in downtown San Francisco, also known as the city's financial district. Similar “for lease” signs dot the area.
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San Francisco's mayor challenges the public perception of her city

by David Brancaccio , Meredith Garretson and Erika Soderstrom
Jul 18, 2023
San Francisco's empty office buildings and fleeing retailers have been in the news. London Breed challenges that narrative.
Increasing housing production, Mayor London Breed says, is one of her main focuses. She also says San Francisco has to get creative with how to repurpose vacant office space.
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From chocolate to real estate, small businesses are trying to create inflation game plans

by Sean McHenry
Apr 12, 2022
Raise prices? Order more inventory, or less? Business owners describe how they're dealing with dramatic changes in market conditions.
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Move to "right-sizing" changes commercial real estate landscape in San Francisco

by Matt Levin
Mar 2, 2022
The hybrid office could reshape the city's economy.
San Francisco's downtown is grappling with a shift from catering to its 9-to-5 crowd, a substantial part of which will be permanently hybrid.
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The big empty: San Francisco is sitting on millions of square feet of vacant office space

by Matt Levin
Mar 17, 2021
Which raises the question: Does it look the city's going to ghost itself?
While other office spaces remain empty, some trophy properties, like the Salesforce building, center, remain hot commodities.
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Lessons of HIV/AIDS help San Francisco battle today's pandemic

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 1, 2020
The Bay Area is keeping COVID casualties down. Officials learned the importance of taking action early and building partnerships.
A doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic passes encouraging graffiti on his way to warn homeless people about the coronavirus.
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San Francisco poised to ban e-cigarettes

by Ben Bradford
Jun 25, 2019
The San Francisco board of supervisors is set to vote on Tuesday to ban e-cigarettes.
Christopher Chin blows vapor from an e-cigarette at Gone With the Smoke Vapor Lounge on May 5, 2016 in San Francisco, California.
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