Culture Editor

Emily Dreyfuss

The Standard Staff

Above Standard/Below Standard: What was in and out this summer in San Francisco

Culture

The Standard’s definitive, unscientific list of the season’s biggest cultural trends.

News Reporter

Tomoki Chien

SF landlord wanted only MAGA voters, Israel supporters at open house. It’s entirely legal 

News

“Political affiliation, unfortunately, is not a protected characteristic,” said a tenant rights attorney. 

Garrett Leahy

This might be SF's cheapest apartment deal. You just have to sleep over the toilet

After The Standard contacted the poster and visited the unit, the owner said he was taking it off the market. Our bad.

Business Reporter

Kevin V. Nguyen

Can the Bay Area afford to keep fighting against rent-setting algorithms?

Business

A lawsuit in Berkeley may spell trouble for other cities aiming to restrict software that jacks up rent, but bipartisan support for such bans is swelling. 

Culture Reporter 

Sam Mondros

‘Truly. Deeply. Evil’: This woman may be SF’s most hated landlord

$3,600 a month for no heat and a leaky ceiling? Tenants of real estate empress Sophie Lau say they've seen it all.

Apartment Rentals

Above Standard/Below Standard: What was in and out this summer in San Francisco

SF landlord wanted only MAGA voters, Israel supporters at open house. It’s entirely legal

This might be SF's cheapest apartment deal. You just have to sleep over the toilet

Can the Bay Area afford to keep fighting against rent-setting algorithms?

‘Truly. Deeply. Evil’: This woman may be SF’s most hated landlord