Someone bought a piece of pop culture history with the purchase of San Francisco’s most recognizable Victorian.

The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.

Having been renovated and expanded over the past 20 years, the 0.72-acre lot is one of the largest single-family pieces of land on the Charleston peninsula, according to a news release from The Maison ...