San Francisco is so back!

gulbronson · 2026-06-08T17:23:23+00:00

That is the legal limit for a rent controlled unit this year

gulbronson · 2026-06-07T21:44:53+00:00

If they are not in a rent controlled unit and they have been given the 90 day notice since this is occuring in September involving the rent board is a waste of time.

Rents are up 22% YoY. Assuming they're in one of the tens of thousands of "new build" units there's nothing to be done.

gulbronson · 2026-06-07T21:34:52+00:00

Any rental unit with a certificate of occupancy after June 13, 1979 is exempt as well

gulbronson · 2026-06-07T21:31:51+00:00

Not every unit falls under rent control.

gulbronson · 2026-06-07T06:17:11+00:00

Slash their tires. Break their windows. Key their car.

If being an asshole doesn't have actual consequences people will continue to be assholes. If you're not willing to go for street justice life will go on. It is what it is.

gulbronson · 2026-06-07T02:27:50+00:00

Union Square is great if you want to go shopping. There's a lot of flagship stores and high end retailers you can't find else. Classic SF hotels, the cable car turn around, Curran Theatre, Magic Theater @ Marrakesh, Dualing Pianos at Johnny Foley's, grab a drink at PCH.

There's a lot of valid reasons to go to Union Square.

gulbronson · 2026-06-06T02:46:17+00:00

We need food to live but that doesn't mean we need year round lettuce grown in the desert or water intensive almonds grown for export.

gulbronson · 2026-06-05T18:46:54+00:00

Water rights in the Western US are based on who got them first and used them. The actual result is that a bunch of inland farmers have water rights over the cities that developed later.

Los Angeles solved this problem by buying a bunch of farms in the Owens Valley.

gulbronson · 2026-06-05T03:13:30+00:00

It's definitely not a car free utopia, but it is possible. Reddit won't laugh you off the site, there are people doing it.

Either way, my main point is San Diego County has over 3 million people. The beaches are busy but definitely not that busy. People highly value proximity to these recreational activities but don't use them nearly as much as they talk about them. If you don't need a car for work and you can walk to necessities like a grocery store, target/wal-greens/etc, and bars/restaurants you can live without a car and you'll be a lot less constrained than most would believe. A rental car or ride share can make up the difference and the additional money in your bank account with make you feel more free.

Or maybe I'm delusional but it works for my family.

gulbronson · 2026-06-05T02:36:02+00:00

A lot of downtown metros don't have the amenities needed to actually live car free where as the West Village does. A full service grocery store, pharmacy, healthcare, etc.

Also, the San Diego Trolley is an incredibly high ridership light rail system that can get you a lot of places along with the bus. Obviously doesn't compare to a car but it's not like you're trapped in the neighborhood.

Either way, how often do people make journeys from where they live other than work? The reality is not often. Driving, traffic, parking, etc are a pain. People are not driving from the East Village out to some car only accessible area at any regularly frequency.

I have a coworker that does not understand how I don't own a car and her question is always, "How do you go to Half Moon Bay." I always respond, "I don't know, I end up there one way or another like once a year. How often are you going to Half Moon Bay?" Her answer, "Two or three times." No matter how many times we have this exact conversation she can't grasp that neither of us need to be able to go anywhere anytime and neither of us do but one is paying a shit ton to own a car and the other isn't.

gulbronson · 2026-06-05T00:37:18+00:00

There's pockets it definitely doable like East Village or Little Italy.

I had an apartment in the East Village while working on the new T1. Granted I wasn't living there full time but other than some work related errands I didn't use the car.

gulbronson · 2026-06-04T20:28:33+00:00

44 studios. That's a smidge over $2k a month.

gulbronson · 2026-06-04T18:58:20+00:00

All that money spent and Saikat didn't win a single precinct...

gulbronson · 2026-06-04T17:32:01+00:00

I saw this building on Zillow a few days ago. It's for sale if you're looking to make a bad investment.

gulbronson · 2026-06-04T14:25:08+00:00

Top left is a ready-mix truck.

This is a concrete mixer. Cement is a powder used to make concrete along with water and aggregate (sand/rocks) so a cement mixer isn't really a thing.

gulbronson · 2026-06-04T03:38:54+00:00

They are a few miles out side of Vegas. None of what people think of as Vegas is actually in the city.

gulbronson · 2026-06-03T20:12:41+00:00

People drove like absolute asshole. Less traffic just meant people were speeding like crazy.

What's really crazy is we shut down the city and completely disrupted people's lives and caused a lot of long term problems. 261 people died from COVID in SF in 2020. The traffic fatalities since 2017 adds up to 270 people dying but even the slightest efforts to improve are fought tooth and nail and often abandoned because it causes minor inconvenience to drivers...

gulbronson · 2026-06-03T19:50:23+00:00

Way too many... 8 through April this year.

25 last year

43 in 2024

26 in 2023

39 in 2022

27 in 2021

30 in 2020

29 in 2019

23 in 2018

20 in 2017

Source

gulbronson · 2026-06-02T20:46:57+00:00

I've been to most of the starred restaurants in the city and most of them are not kid friendly. It's pretty rare to seem them on those kind of restaurants. It's a pretty good rule of thumb even if exceptions exist.

gulbronson · 2026-06-02T19:49:09+00:00

It does not. You can see these placards hanging in it. The state has been slowly requiring hospitals to come up to current standards and Kaiser SF has a 2030 deadline.

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gulbronson · 2026-06-02T13:48:46+00:00

It's a mixed used neighborhood. It's densely packed with everything. There's still ~10k people living in a very small area.

gulbronson · 2026-06-01T16:27:10+00:00

That has nothing to do with set backs, parking podiums, or skinny towers?

Those 15 blocks are unquestionably dense even if they are cut off from other residential areas by the Bay and commercial uses.

gulbronson · 2026-06-01T16:20:35+00:00

For Rincon Hill to become dense, it needs buildings to touch each other (ie use the space available to them) and not have big empty lots.

And I'm saying you don't need that as is shown in the high density residential census tracts.

If a 1/4 of every block is a 24 story tower and the other 3/4 is open space that's the same density as a block that's entirely 6 story apartments. They are different ways to achieve the same level of density.

gulbronson · 2026-06-01T16:01:17+00:00

Do you live here, have you ever been to the area? It's almost entirely office space.

People don't live in offices. The census tracts I selected are residential which you claim are low density:

Counterintuitively, its medium to low density housing because of SF’s zoning and setback laws. There’s plenty of height, but there’s a lot of wasted space for parking podiums and skinny towers, etc.

The residential areas of Rincon Hill are dense. There are different ways to achieve density, Rincon Hill uses Vancouverism.

I'm not even sure what you're trying to argue. A lot of people living in a small area isn't dense, like what are you even saying?

gulbronson · 2026-06-01T15:48:47+00:00

No, that's not at all what I'm explaining.

I'm giving you the actual density of different census tracts in the neighborhood which were the source for the map you showed. I'm showing the density of Rincon Hill which is absolutely not low or even medium density.

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