City Council approves plan that could add over 2,000 housing units next to UC Berkeley
The Berkeley City Council approved an upzoning plan that could see the city adding over 2,000 housing units next to the university campus.
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The Berkeley City Council approved an upzoning plan that could see the city adding over 2,000 housing units next to the university campus.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday finalized an updated housing element, a component of the county's general plan that quantifies and strategizes how to provide adequate housing for all residents in unincorporated areas of the county.
San Francisco has been stepping up efforts to put its best face forward for APEC, including the clearing out of homeless encampments in the neighborhoods surrounding the conference.
A plan to build thousands of new homes in San Jose may be slashed to just a fraction of that as the builder seeks to invoke the builder’s remedy to downsize the project. Lezla Gooden reports. (11/8/23)
A plan to build thousands of new homes in San Jose may be slashed to just a fraction of that as the developer seeks to invoke the "Builder's Remedy" to downsize the project.
Residents at a mobile home park in Castro Valley thought their homes were protected by Alameda County's rent control law, but the property's new owner is saying otherwise.
As the APEC summit in San Francisco nears, the city is hard at work cleaning up the streets around the Moscone Center.
A scathing new report from the state reveals the bureaucratic and costly permitting process builders face when it comes to constructing new housing in San Francisco.
Prospective Bay Area home buyers are in a tough spot as mortgage rates hit a two-decade high, leaving some prospective home buyers re-evaluating their dreams.
Renters in California will no longer be asked for a security deposit larger than one month's rent, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
As home prices in the Bay Area continue to remain high, the rate of homeownership among Latinos has declined, even though it has risen nationally. Max Darrow reports.
As home prices in the Bay Area continue to remain high, the rate of homeownership among Latinos has declined, even though it has risen nationally.
A judge has taken away the temporary restraining order that prevented the city of Berkeley from sweeping a homeless encampment.
Nearly 50 people crowded Concord City Hall Thursday to attend a rally calling for more tenant protections in the city.
City officials in San Francisco are preparing to resume sweeping homeless encampments after receiving the latest legal guidance amid a year-long battle over the issue playing out in court.
Residents of one San Francisco neighborhood are installing street planters to discourage unhoused people who, they say, are more disturbed and threatening than preceding sidewalk squatters.
As city officials in San Francisco tout their affordable housing expansion efforts, residents say some Single Room Occupancy (SRO) buildings and residential hotels are being neglected.
This year, officials started paying more attention to the deplorable living conditions some Bay Area farmworkers face. KPIX met a family in Gilroy that is just one of many who would benefit from new help being provided by the state.
On Tuesday, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to declare a countywide state of emergency on homelessness.
California lawmakers have voted to strengthen eviction protections for renters, closing an existing loophole allowing landlords to circumvent the state's rent cap.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed this week signed a new law aimed to expedite the planning, approval and construction of housing projects in the city.
The city of Berkeley's plans to evict people living at a major homeless encampment have been put on hold after a legal victory for the unhoused people who reside there.
A controversial plan to convert a La Quinta Inn and Suites in the city of Millbrae into permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless people was approved Tuesday by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, despite pleas from the city's mayor and dozens of residents who spoke against the project at the meeting.
Berkeley is about to vote on a proposal to raise height limits on apartment buildings in an effort to create more affordable housing. Da Lin reports. (9-8-23)
California lawmakers have voted to fast-track low-income housing on surplus land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions.
