Lauren Hepler
SF Chronicle
Oakland, CA, United States
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The $2 million encampment: How a California yacht town became a homeless battleground
What happens when a decades-old battle over boat life is dragged ashore during a pandemic?... → Read More
California wanted to end homeless shelters. Instead, COVID reinvented them
Landmark civil rights cases and fallout from the pandemic spurred demand for... → Read More
Oakland police issue public safety advisory after 9:30 a.m. attempted rape and robbery
The incident occured Sunday in the 2900 block of Parker Avenue. → Read More
Will voters in California force homeless people out of sight? One city pushes new battleground
Sacramento’s Measure O, which is backed by real estate firms and NBA executives, will test whether cities can use voters to challenge legal protections for unhoused people. → Read More
The Bay Area has the nation’s biggest gender homeownership gap — but not how you might expect
Bay Area single women are outpacing single men in buying homes in the cutthroat San Francisco and San Jose metro areas, federal data shows. → Read More
In San Francisco, you must make this much money to rent an apartment
A widening gap between San Francisco renters who make minimum wage and high-earners shut out of homeownership signals a shift in the housing crisis. → Read More
Mark Zuckerberg sells his San Francisco house for $31 million
Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has sold his sprawling San Francisco home for $31 million, tripling his money since buying the house a decade ago. → Read More
The next battle in California’s housing crisis: Should cities tax empty homes?
While many agree unaffordability has reached a breaking point, taxing properties vacant... → Read More
Veteran surfers find a moment of zen on a somber Memorial Day
Amid a busy slate of Bay Area events to commemorate fallen service members, Santa... → Read More
How California EDD’s bureaucracy made the Bay Area housing crisis that much worse
California's Employment Development Department delayed unemployment benefits for thousands of workers. Now, many of those workers are facing eviction. → Read More
One artist’s garage eviction is a cautionary tale of the shifting Bay Area housing crisis
With rental homes and apartments further out of reach, precarious housing like garages,... → Read More
The $1.3 million fixer-upper: What 5 recent Bay Area home sales say about the COVID housing market
Buyers are contending with sky-high prices and big tradeoffs for entry-level homes. → Read More
This is the ‘crazy’ average income needed to buy a home in the Bay Area today
As middle-class home buyers dwindle, longtime owners get creative to pay high mortgages. → Read More
California just extended eviction protections again. But how many people does the deal leave out?
State applications close March 31, and a last-minute political deal to extend some... → Read More
Bay Area rents are approaching pre-COVID levels. These are the cities where prices are rising fastest
Job hubs on the Peninsula and in the East Bay are seeing price hikes at similar rates to... → Read More
‘They’re trying to steal my house’: A Berkeley family’s $1.1 million city renovation nightmare
A retiree fights to save his home from an obscure legal process that attorneys say cities... → Read More
‘It’s the Wild West’: One Bay Area marina has become the site of a nightmare eviction battle
A battle at Bethel Island’s Anchor Marina reveals a fight decades in the making over... → Read More
Is California’s Prop. 13 racist? Homeowners in white neighborhoods of one city may get triple the tax benefit
The controversial state law costs Oakland $400 million a year, a new analysis finds, and... → Read More
California governor seizes on Texas abortion law tactics to go after assault rifles and ghost guns
California’s governor plans to craft a law allowing private citizens to sue... → Read More
‘It’s so hard’: California’s homeless face misery in rain, cold
From the shores of Santa Cruz to industrial East Oakland, people with nowhere to go are... → Read More