Activity

Walk any block in San Francisco and you can read a city’s structural history in the crawlspaces. Soft-story Victorians with long garage openings, stucco-clad 1920s apartment buildings on brick piers, midcentury infill squeezed onto sand stem wall and bay mud, and newer construction tucked between them all. The common denominator is ground that moves. The Bay Area will shake again. What matters for a home