Homzora / San Francisco
San Francisco methodology
This edition covers the City and County of San Francisco. Other Bay Area cities are outside the renter-survey eligibility scope.
Planning tools
Calculators use user-entered numbers. Defaults are illustrative scenarios, not observed market rents, official fares, lending criteria or findings about affordability. The neighborhood list is an editorial starting point, not an official boundary system or ranking.
Sources
Resource links point to the San Francisco Rent Board, SFMTA, BART and DAHLIA. Readers should check the original service for current rules, eligibility, fares and availability. No legal limits or current market estimates are inferred from calculator defaults.
Research
Survey collection is voluntary and limited to adults currently renting in San Francisco. The form collects no name, email or exact address. Email signup is separate. Administrators can access raw responses. Hosting logs may contain IP addresses and temporary hashed-IP counters help limit abuse.
There are no published San Francisco survey scores at launch. Proposed SF-RAI concerns whole-home rent burden; SF-RSI concerns the 1–5 housing-satisfaction rating; SF-NDI concerns stated moving destinations and does not measure market demand.
Each measure requires at least 100 eligible answers in its own denominator, a completed UTC calendar quarter and editorial review. Any subgroup and its complement require at least 15 answers. Small destination cells suppress the entire destination breakdown. Test submissions and detected duplicate retries are excluded; unique IDs cannot detect all repeat participants.
Income bands require documented assumptions, sensitivity analysis and a treatment of the open-ended highest band before SF-RAI can be released. Room-only responses are excluded from whole-home affordability. No measure is computed or released automatically. Minimum counts do not make a voluntary sample representative.
View the proposed research framework or download reference data.