SF Supes Vote To Place $600M Affordable Housing Bond On Nov. Ballot
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to place an affordable housing bond on the November ballot, city officials said.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to place an affordable housing bond on the November ballot, city officials said.
The city of Santa Cruz has earned a dubious new distinction: it is now the least affordable city in America for teachers.
Political wrangling around bills to cap rent increases, set rules for evictions and cut red tape to build housing reveals big splits in the Legislature when it comes to one of the most pressing issues in California.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is proposing $5 million in subsidies and waived fees for homeowners who want to construct accessory dwelling units.
Ground was broken Friday on a nine-story, 143-apartment building in the Mission District designed to provide permanent affordable housing for low-income families.
The North San Pedro studios will bring permanent housing to homeless veterans and chronically homeless people who have been living in shelters or on the streets.
After many students dropped out after wildfires took their homes, Santa Rosa Junior College is now planning to build a $43 million, five story student housing complex.
Frida and Katya Cassidy-Schiesser have become housing activists after half their Girl Scout troop has had to move away because of rent increases.
Housing homeless people in backyard sheds sounds extreme, but Oakland officials say the exploding crisis calls for extreme ideas.
Twenty-seven percent of residents who responded to a write-in answer on a survey said affordability, cost of living and housing was their single biggest priority for Marin County, according to the county officials.
With youth homelessness on the rise in the East Bay, some believe tiny homes could be part of the solution. One organization is taking that vision a step further.
As the Bay Area grapples with an ongoing housing crisis, many communities are decades, even centuries away from meeting their affordable housing goals, a new study finds.
The number of homes affordable to median income people in San Jose dropped drastically in 2018, according to an analysis released by Redfin this week.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit against a couple, accusing them of illegally taking advantage of the city's affordable housing program.
The city of San Jose is set to take a key vote Tuesday afternoon on the sale of a major section of the downtown area to Google.
A California law that requires voter approval for publicly funded affordable housing projects would be repealed under legislation introduced Monday in the state Senate.
A new housing start-up based in Oakland is looking to create more affordable housing in the Bay Area.
San Francisco city officials broke ground Wednesday on the future site of 80 new affordable housing units in the city's Mission District, which will bring much needed housing to the neighborhood's low-income residents.
The long saga to redevelop the Vallco shopping mall in Cupertino could face another delay, as opponents of the project claimed they have enough signatures to place a referendum on the ballot.
The currently suspended Cupertino city attorney filed a claim with the city Monday, alleging he was illegally placed on leave in retaliation for his opposition to a massive development project to renovate the city's Vallco Mall.
While the ideas were preliminary, the district said it needs to find a way to retain teachers and schools may need to be moved.
East Palo Alto was once known as the murder capital of the country. Now, for many longtime residents, it's too expensive for them to afford. There is a measure on the November ballot that seeks to help them.
Demolition began Thursday for the old Vallco shopping mall in Cupertino, as the site is set to become a new housing and office development after sitting mostly empty for years.
A new kind of landlord has popped up the Bay Area, where affordable housing can be notoriously out of reach. These landlords' rentals come with four wheels.
A plan to bulldoze a pair of schools to make way for affordable housing was the topic of a heated meeting in South San Jose Wednesday night.
