Fair Housing Laws ‘Second Chance’ laws raise weighty moral and legal issues Coined the “Fair Chance” ordinance, lawmakers in Berkeley have introduced a measure that would prohibit landlords from conducting criminal background checks in vetting most… ...
10 Big Ideas for San Francisco: These proposals created by city residents target our biggest issues As the Chronicle’s SFNext initiative comes to a close, a group of experts and concerned... By Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Bay Area Bay Area housing project on BART land is on hold due to dispute ...
Bay Area Housing Crisis May Cause NIMBY Attitudes to WaneAvalos, George
Sorry Google—Funding More Homes Won’t Solve the Bay Area Housing Crunch BYStephane Kasriel June 22, 2019 Real estate Google Pledges $1 Billion to Develop 20,000 New S.F. Bay Area Homes Over the Next Decade BYKevin Kelleher June 18, 2019 ...
Bay Area Housing Supply and Demand Mai has seen a bit of a decrease in buyer demand in the past year, and she attributes some of that to higher interest rates. So has Wyant Smit, who says, "Higher rates are impacting the market. Even people who can pay cash will often get a loa...
26 While the recent housing plans put forward by San Francisco and other counties are a step toward increasing production, execution will be critical for making those plans a reality.27 The Bay Area must ramp up construction of affordable housing units, with a sp...
most of them will fail, and some of them may engineer the real breakthrough." The Bay Area's pressing housing shortage, coupled with the popularity of ADUs, may boost Mighty Buildings' fortunes, Katz said. But housing, he said, "has been one of the most resistant areas to experimental ...
Pichai said Google had previously invested in housing in areas where it has operations. "Today we're announcing an additional $1 billion investment in housing across the Bay Area," Pichai said in a blog post. The largest chunk of this would be to "repurpose" over the next 10 years for ...
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Bay Area housing market gets costlier in JanuaryBy Alejandro Lazo