Emma Stiefel

As of 2023, San Francisco landlords must report housing information in order to receive a rent increase license. Here's how to check.

This updated property map tells you who owns any building in California. Just type in any address.

California police stop racial profiling statistics.

Data on 3,000 GoFundMe campaigns show how transgender people are crowdfunding gender-affirming care

Two fuzzy, new-with-tags, his-and-hers bathrobes. Half a dozen bags of cat food, rejected by a picky feline after just a few scoops. A baby bottle sterilizer that “still works great” but might benefit from some descaling. A large bundle of freshly gathered rosemary branches. A box of 58 mismatched glasses collected for a wedding, perfect “if matchy-matchy isn’t your vibe.” Where can one find such a hodgepodge of items, completely free? Buy Nothing San Francisco. For the uninitiated, the Facebook…

California’s wildflower spring blooms are not as ‘super’ as last year, but this map shows where to find them right now.

PG&E CEO Patricia Poppe took home $17 million in the 2023 fiscal year, including her $1.4 million salary and $11.8 million in stock awards. That was up by nearly $3 million from 2022, when she made $14.1 million in compensation. While critics believe this hearty pay package is uncalled for amid soaring energy bills, PG&E has argued that they are paying market rate for top talent. To put Poppe’s pay in context, the Chronicle collected CEO compensation data for the 20 investor-owned utilities in…

Chief executives who run major nonprofits that San Francisco relies on for vital services take home a wide array of compensation. While the average total pay among CEOs whose nonprofits held the city’s 24 biggest contracts was $304,000 in the last fiscal year, the figures ranged from $149,000 to $762,000. The 24 nonprofits with the biggest contracts have received a total of $3.8 billion in active San Francisco contracts since July 2017, most of which fund several years of work. In just the 2022…

Charles Scharf, the CEO of San Francisco’s largest publicly traded company Wells Fargo, made $24.6 million in 2022. That was 324 times more than the median employee at the company, who made $76,000. Those numbers come from the AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch database, which is based on company statements filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Chronicle used this database to analyze the compensation of the CEOs of San Francisco’s 20 largest public companies by revenue, and how the…

Winter is the best time to get outside and see mushrooms in nature. This map highlights where to find them in the Bay Area.