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Members of the activist group, Moms 4 Housing, announced Friday that the vacant 3-bedroom home in West Oakland they occupied earlier this year was purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust from a real estate investment company.
A new rule requires housing developers planning to build in unincorporated parts of Santa Clara County to set aside units for low-income residents or pay an in-lieu fee.
The future of one minority-owned gas station in San Francisco is fueling quite a debate. While some want to save it, others want to replace it with affordable housing.
With the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, many wonder why abandoned buildings aren't being used to house people. The city of Richmond is now doing just that.
Affordable housing in California, already an extremely rare commodity, will likely become even more rare in the next decade.
After more than five years of stalled talks, San Jose plans to start charging commercial developers fees to fund affordable housing - a move housing advocates said is long overdue.
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the development of a housing project at the Balboa Reservoir site next to San Francisco City College.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors began discussing a new plan to build housing on the site of the Balboa Reservoir.
The Walnut Creek City Council last week approved a $6 million loan to a Berkeley-based affordable-housing developer toward a $68.2 million, 95-unit mixed housing and commercial project downtown.
A bill that would spur the development of affordable housing on church parking lots and property owned by houses of worship has passed the State Senate.
The decrease in Bay Area rental prices has been significant this year, especially in the most expensive cities. Some median prices have even dropped by double-digit percentages.
San Francisco supervisors introduced several charter amendments that will be decided by voters this November.
When a novel coronavirus outbreak threatens to shut down schools in the Bay Area, it places even more pressure on those who are barely making ends meet.
California state sen. Scott Wiener (D-S.F.) introduced legislation on Friday that aims to increase affordable housing production throughout the state by easing zoning restrictions
Parking lots at houses of worship could soon be part of solving California's affordable housing crisis under proposals introduced in the state legislature.
Peninsula residents can expect to see more affordable housing built along the Caltrain corridor in the near future, that's a promise from the board of directors. Caltrain recently committed that for all future construction, 30 percent of the units built will be allocated for affordable housing.
Tuesday's election results showed a majority of San Jose's voters supporting Measure E, a property sale transaction tax.
San Francisco voters took to the polls Tuesday and appeared to approve all five measures on the ballot, according to the preliminary election results.
Affordable housing solutions for San Francisco have been far more difficult to agree upon. Proposition E is a perfect example of how political local housing measures have become.
Ahead of the March 3 California primary, proponents of a new tax on mega real estate deals in Santa Clara County are stepping up efforts to raise awareness about the proposal - Measure E - that elected officials say will raise funds for affordable housing. But opponents say there is a catch.
A piece of San Francisco's industrial past is being resurrected. Developers plan to turn the old Potrero Power Station into a mixed use metropolis.
California lawmakers voted down legislation Wednesday that would have allowed developers to build small apartment buildings in neighborhoods zoned for single-family homes.
Some much-needed new condominiums will soon be available for sale in Berkeley. Because of the city's affordable housing mandate some of them will carry an amazingly low price.
The city of Berkeley has opened a lottery for low-income, first-time homebuyers to apply to buy one of six newly built condominiums created through the city's affordable housing strategy.
Teachers in San Francisco could eventually get housing provided by the city after the San Francisco Unified School District's Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to approve affordable educator housing.
