A Housing Solution Success Story: Nonprofits Buy Buildings To Prevent Displacement
It's a San Francisco success story: nonprofits are increasingly buying buildings citywide to prevent displacement of rent controlled tenants.
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It's a San Francisco success story: nonprofits are increasingly buying buildings citywide to prevent displacement of rent controlled tenants.
They're commonly referred to as homeless encampments, but Mavin Carter-Griffin would prefer you call them "curbside communities."
More than 100 demonstrators, many of them senior citizens, crowded into Mayor London Breed's office Wednesday, saying they wouldn't leave until she agreed to meet with them.
One nonprofit is providing mailing addresses for the homeless in San Jose and it's helping some of them find permanent housing.
"Homeless" and "pregnant" are two words that shouldn't go together, but sadly they often do. They describe a portion of the homeless population that is hidden by design.
The state insurance commissioner is taking action after a KPIX report revealed thousands of homeowners in high-risk fire areas are losing their insurance coverage.
Bay Area Community Services (BACS) is the largest housing solutions program in the Bay Area and it's largely funded by tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. But dozens of people say they're back out on the street because of BACS.
A mother and her son were on a waitlist for a homeless shelter for 18 months and once they got in, they were kicked out eight months later due to a mental health outburst.
As fires ravage California each year, more homeowners are at risk of losing their insurance.
Small property owners showed up in droves to the Rent Board this week to debate whether landlords should be required to disclose their finances to pass along any debt. Currently, they don't have to, and tenants want that to change.
At a time when most of his peers are collecting their pensions, Earl Pratt is collecting cans. At 57 years old, he's homeless for the first time in his life.
Politicians in San Francisco say Propositions A and E will have a significant impact on the city's ability to build much needed affordable housing, but even some supporters say Prop E is overhyped.
A fight between rent controlled tenants and San Francisco's largest landlord has reached a truce.
More than 100 low income senior citizens living in affordable housing in Novato are worried they're being priced out.
The Bay Area earned a new title this year: the region is officially the most expensive place to build in the world.
Most people have that one teacher who changed the course of their life forever, but increasingly, students in the Bay Area are losing the opportunity to have that kind of relationship with an educator.
It's a small but growing movement in the Bay Area: living tiny. Community leaders are increasingly deploying tiny homes to help the homeless.
Landlords in San Francisco might soon have to disclose their finances to raise their tenants' rent after the Rent Board Commission considered new regulations Tuesday night.
It's an $18 billion industry in the United States and San Francisco is at the center of it. Short-term rental laws that were designed to preserve the city's existing housing stock back in 2015 spurred growth for yet another tech disruptor.
A woman who has been fighting heart failure her entire life is trying to survive in affordable housing, which she worries is compromising her health.
Sonja Trauss, a self-proclaimed "YIMBY," has a plan to help solve the housing crisis: she's suing the suburbs.
Two families in East Oakland are facing eviction because their rent-controlled apartments were turned into condos, or at least that's what their landlord says happened.
Elderly tenants living on a fixed income in San Francisco are paying the mortgage of the city's largest landlord, and they say it's getting to be too expensive.
Tenants in Antioch and Hayward say an affordable housing developer is making their apartment complexes unaffordable.
The housing crisis has crept its way into every corner of life in California.
