{"id":427475,"date":"2026-08-08T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427475\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:16:10","slug":"welcome-to-the-age-of-the-4000-apartment-when-even-the-well-off-are-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427475\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the age of the $4,000 apartment, when even the well-off are struggling\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 8, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">When Vy found out that her landlord was going to raise the rent on her studio apartment in SoMa by 30%, she gave notice on the apartment where she\u2019d lived for two years and ventured out into San Francisco\u2019s rental market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">What she found was rental hell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Open houses full of tech bros offering to bid up prices, countless ghostings after emails and inquiries, and a general expectation to come to every viewing armed with an application and a credit score.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cEvery hour of the day, I was on Craigslist and Zillow,\u201d said Vy, who works in the construction industry. \u201cIt was the worst time of my life, probably.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 8, 2026at6:00am When Vy found out that her landlord was going to raise the rent on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15682,1337,388,169627,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-427475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-apartment-rentals","tag-housing-development","tag-real-estate","tag-rent-check","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}