San Francisco is still a renter’s worst nightmare, and it’s kicking 2015 off with yet more record-high price tags . According to real estate listings site Zumper, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco jumped to $3,410 last month, up 0.6 percent from December. That’s about $400 more than the median one-bedroom in New York, which San Francisco surpassed in rent prices for the first time last September The median price of a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco also rose 0.9 percent over the last month, making it about $1,000 more expensive for two-bedrooms than New York. It’s a slight but unwelcome uptick in a city where rent prices shot up 13.5 percent in 2014. San Francisco has become increasingly unaffordable for many of its long-time residents and low-wage workers as an influx of Silicon Valley wealth floods the city. Income inequality in San Francisco is so great that it’s on par with that of developing nations , the city’s H...
