{"id":457629,"date":"2026-09-08T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457629\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:06:25","slug":"sf-renters-face-buyout-offers-and-evictions-as-ai-boom-sends-prices-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457629\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAirdate: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9am\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Rents are shooting through the roof in San Francisco as the AI boom creates yet another new class of wealthy people. The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the city is now $4,600, according to Apartment List, up more than 25% from last year.\u00a0Some landlords are looking to cash in by clearing out tenants from rent-controlled homes, so renters say they\u2019re being offered massive buyouts \u2013 some above six figures \u2013 to leave their apartments or else face no-fault eviction. We\u2019ll talk about wild times in San Francisco\u2019s rental market and how landlords, renters and those in search for a place to live are adjusting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Kami Rieck, contributing writer, New York TimesTuesday Thornton, staff attorney, Eviction Defense CollaborativeJoshua Howard, executive vice president of local government affairs, California Apartment AssociationJ.K. Dineen, Bay Area housing reporter, San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9am Rents are shooting through the roof in San Francisco as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-457629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","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\/457629","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=457629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}