The housing market's biggest shocker: Your rent may actually fall this year

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The apartment market is "rapidly shifting in favor of renters," and that means tenants can expect lower rent and a lot of new perks.

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Tenants are finally gaining power in the housing market

Google tells employees in its Cloud unit to share desks and attend the office on alternate days

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A Google office in San Francisco, California.

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Yelp workers flocked to Texas and Florida from New York and San Francisco after the company went fully remote

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Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt at Pier 48 on September 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California.
CEO Jeremy Stoppelman is a vocal advocate of remote work.

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A Google manager who got laid off liked working with his colleagues so much he's trying to set up a new company with 6 of them

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Google laid of about 12,000 staff in January.

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Homebuyers have a better shot at scoring a deal on a house in the 14 cities where home prices have plummeted the most

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Houses in San Jose, California, where home prices dropped 12.7% since their peak in 2022.

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Passenger describes 'screaming' and 'praying' aboard United flight as it plunged within 800 feet of the Pacific Ocean

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Stock image of United Airlines Boeing 777-200.

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Low-income renters are frustrated by Biden's new plan to make housing more affordable because they don't think it does enough to combat surging rents

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President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on January 12, 2023.

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Elon Musk's Twitter ordered by officials to properly label bedrooms in San Francisco HQ as sleeping areas — or convert them back to offices within 15 days

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A former Twitter worker previously said Elon Musk had often slept in the company's offices.

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San Francisco homebuyers are benefiting more from the cooling housing market than those in any other big US city

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Downtown San Francisco

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The generative AI boom is bringing San Francisco’s tech scene roaring back to life

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Today I drove through the suburbs, reader. After weeks of unpleasant hot girl walks on highways and under freeways in my new hometown of San Diego, I finally got a car.

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