Category: San Francisco
12 April, 2013 (10:03) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, San Francisco, Urbanization, US News | No comments
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith By mixing and matching snippets from three stories – the New York Post (March 30, 2013) (brown font), the San Francisco Chronicle (November 20, 2012) (blue font), and Bloomberg (January 29, 2013) (green font) – we’ve been able to see [...]
10 April, 2013 (17:27) | Affordability, Apartments, Configuration, Corruption, Innovations, Markets, New York, Rent control, rentals, San Francisco, Urbanization, US News | No comments
By:David A. Smith Just as a single data point does not make a trend, an individual news story stands by itself, but when we add another point, the resulting line becomes a new dimension, and a third point makes a plane in two dimensions, so it wasn’t until I read this story in the [...]
25 January, 2013 (10:00) | Cities, land rent, Parking, parklets, permitting, Politics, public space, San Francisco, sidewalks, Urbanization, Zoning | 1 comment
By:David A. Smith Nothing is so complicated in San Francisco as doing an altruistic thing without sufficient permission – for, as revealed in the San Francisco Chronicle (January 6, 2013), that can provoke the wrath of an unpropitiated local troll. To begin with, we must start with a clever urban innovation to convert some [...]
17 July, 2012 (10:08) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post introduced us, via an aren’t-they-clever little story from the New York Times, so some enterprising young Californian women who’ve started running a chain of white-collar crash pads for aspiring tech entrepreneurs who’d eschew eating and sleeping altogether if they could, and if they [...]
16 July, 2012 (11:41) | Apartments, Cities, dormitories, Entrepreneur, hostels, Hotels, Housing, Innovations, Rental, Rooming Houses, San Francisco, Tenure | 1 comment
By:David A. Smith Look – over in Silicon Valley. It’s a hotel! It’s a rooming house! It’s an apartment! No, it’s … Superdorm? Whatever this unusual living accommodation is, it’s serving a need and creating a business, as revealed in this gee-whiz article from the New York Times: Crammed Into Cheap [...]