Rachel Scheier covers the San Francisco Bay Area for CoStar News. Before joining CoStar, she covered the housing crisis and the impact of the pandemic on such issues as crime and homelessness for Kaiser Health News and the Los Angeles Times.

She previously spent more than a decade working as a journalist in Africa, first in Cairo, Egypt, where she chronicled the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East for the LA Times, and in Kampala, Uganda, where she wrote for such publications as Newsday and the Boston Globe.

She has been a staff writer at the New York Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Contra Costa Times, among others. She's a graduate of UC Berkeley and New York University’s journalism school.