Oakland Mayor Scolds Cupertino Over Affordable Housing Policy
Oakland's mayor is calling out Cupertino for not pulling its weight to deal with the housing crisis.
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Oakland's mayor is calling out Cupertino for not pulling its weight to deal with the housing crisis.
After heated discussion, the Cupertino city council decided to move forward and approve a massive housing development plan on the old Vallco shopping mall site Wednesday night.
Officials in Cupertino have extended debate for a second day as residents battle a mixed-use project that would include more than 2,000 homes on the former Vallco shopping mall site.
Tensions are running high in Cupertino over a developer's plans for hundreds of new homes as some neighbors are saying, "not so fast."
The town of Healdsburg has a unique development plan that could rake in millions in tax revenue and create affordable housing.
Construction costs for new housing are going through the roof in San Francisco and developers are feeling the pinch.
Officials in Oakland on Wednesday were touting a new program that's helping increase the number of affordable rental units available for low-income families.
The Grant Avenue site could host a large number of units, ranging from 60 to 120.
A new state law could help fast-track a housing project in Berkeley.
In San Jose protesters disrupted the mayor's State of the City Address, chanting, "Say it loud, say it clear, Google is not welcome here."
A new law could make it a lot easier to build housing in California.
In a city where real estate prices are setting national records, San Francisco's mayor is vowing to punish cheaters in the city's affordable housing program following a KPIX 5 investigation.
It's apparently easy to abuse San Francisco's below-market-rate housing program once you get your foot in the door, as we uncovered in our investigation.
A deadly apartment fire in San Jose is getting political. A city councilman is calling for urgent rent reform because many old buildings are unsafe.
San Francisco's Pier 70 shipyard got the green light to be developed into mixed use space with almost 1,000 below market rate housing units.
Oakland has teamed up with a non-profit to transform 26 vacant properties into permanently affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents.
Lawmakers and housing advocates cheered Gov. Jerry Brown's signature Friday of a package of bills aimed at tackling the growing affordable housing crisis in California.
The mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and other big California cities urged lawmakers Wednesday to address the state's housing shortage.
A San Francisco man allegedly broke the rules of the city's affordable housing program by renting out his below market-rate South of Market condominium to tenants and then trying to sell it on the open market, according to a lawsuit filed by the city attorney's office Wednesday.
A new report found African-Americans aren't sharing in the recovery, even as whites, Asian-Americans and Latinos slowly see gains in home-buying.
The California state Senate has approved a new fee on real estate transactions to help generate hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing.
A Marin politician is angling to get his constituents another pass on a state requirement to build affordable housing.
Hundreds of Milpitas residents have been told to prepare to pack up and move out of their apartments to clear the way for a new development by building owners.
"This is a housing crisis that preceded Donald Trump, but it is about to be exacerbated by our president," said Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco.
Some desperately needed affordable housing that just opened up in Fremont has backers of a county ballot measure hoping this is just the beginning.
