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Sophie Bearman

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As seen in: Life in Seven Songs, The San Francisco Standard, USA Today, CNBC, NBC News, Flipboard, The Street, EIN News
Host, "Life in Seven Songs" @sfstandard & Head of Audio | NYC to SF | PCT 2023 | Last name pronounced 🐻👨 | Tweets my own
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More children, more problems: How families with three, four, and five kids make it in SF

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By Sophie Bearman Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published Jul. 19, 2026at6:00am Two years ago, I gave birth to my daughter. I’ve loved being a mom — so much that we‘re trying for another, and I can imagine having three, maybe four, kids. Except for one thing: We live in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world, with some of the worst housing stock. How do you raise a large family here? What’s the secret? My curiosity got me to pick up the phone and track down nine San Francisco families with three or more kids.
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Guess that billionaire PAC: A 2026 election quiz

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By Hannah Wiley Verified, Emily Shugerman Verified, Sophie Bearman Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Guess that billionaire PAC: A 2026 election quiz Seemingly every baron in the Bay Area has a PAC now. None of them tell you what they really fund. Can you guess? Source: Illustration by The Standard With $400 million spent on ballot measures and candidates, 2026 is shaping up to be the most expensive midterm in California history.
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Do you know what homes in this city sell for? Take our quiz

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By Sophie Bearman Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
San Francisco’s housing market is always crazy, but lately it has been straight-up unhinged. Buyers with wads of AI money are competing for a record few number of houses, driving up prices at a speed even obsessive real estate watchers can’t track. The Standard’s real estate reporter Emily Landes describes the situation as a frenzy.
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