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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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Guess that billionaire PAC: A 2026 election quiz

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By Hannah Wiley, 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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Wealthy anywhere else, struggling here: SF families earning $400K buckle under child care

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By Sophie Bearman Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
At a mayoral forum last year, a woman raised her hand. She said she and her husband both worked in tech. Between them, they earned $400,000 a year — a figure that would place them in the 97th percentile (opens in new tab) for U.S. households. In San Francisco, however, it meant that the couple had abandoned an attempt to buy a home after realizing they couldn’t afford it — even when pooling resources with her parents.
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