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San Francisco's dream of building affordable housing for teachers is finally close to fruition after more than 20 years of false starts and stalled plans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a monthslong back-and-forth battle, the city of Sausalito notified the residents of a tent encampment that they must leave by Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's no secret that the Bay Area has some of the highest rents in the nation. But that still might be less expensive than buying a home, data shows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When San Francisco building inspectors issue notices of violation, they typically outline what was wrong with the job. It could be that the wiring was shoddy, a deck was built without permits or a bedroom was added without planning approvals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two Bay Area cities dominate the list of large U.S. metropolitan areas with the most houses valued at over $1 million - far outdistancing all others, according to a new study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When San Francisco building inspectors issue notices of violation, they typically outline what was wrong with the job. It could be that the wiring was shoddy, a deck was built without permits or a bedroom was added without planning approvals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with just days to go before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you're looking for a home to buy in the Bay Area these days, here are a few new figures to keep in mind. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A push to extend California's eviction freeze for struggling tenants is down to the wire, with less than a week before the current moratorium is set to expire on June 30. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three development teams are vying to build the Bay Area's largest mixed-use development at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a year after a previous effort to develop the property fell apart because of a dispute over whether the project would use all union labor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When big-city development projects kick off, the hoopla feels familiar - dignitaries and back-patting, bright talk about the future and awkward photographs with pristine shovels. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With California's long-festering housing deficit aggravated by a steep pandemic downturn, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes a superlative stopgap that would cover some $5 billion in back rent. Lawmakers, meanwhile, are negotiating another extension of the state's eviction moratorium to keep more vulnerable tenants from joining the state's swollen homeless population before the unprecedented subsidies can be spent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two Bay Area cities dominate the list of large U.S. cities with the most houses valued at over $1 million - far outdistancing all others, according to a new study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Despite its reputation as one of the most progressive regions in the country, the Bay Area grew more segregated over the last three decades, according to a new UC Berkeley study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Noe Valley home, built in 1929, features just 1,200 square feet of living space, but loads of charm. Like the window frames, garage door and tile work in matching teal. Like the large, lush garden that connects to those of the neighbors for a magical open space popular among kids who can forget for a moment they live in a bustling city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unlike the rest of the country, Bay Area home buyers are seeing more options on the market compared with last year - but those houses are more expensive than ever and buyers are snapping them up within days, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Home values are up seemingly everywhere in the Bay Area except San Francisco. Yet while the city is an exception in the region, the "San Francisco exodus" - people leaving the city, causing rents and home values to drop precipitously - has actually been the norm within major U.S. metropolitan areas, according to research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Marie Harrison warned for years that the Hunters Point shipyard where she once worked on San Francisco's southeastern edge was a slow-motion public health disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a tense six-hour meeting, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to delay scheduling a vote before the end of June to decide whether to opt in to a tax district that would help the Oakland A's build a waterfront ballpark. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco planning department's recent push to encourage landlords to convert common spaces into housing units has resulted in nearly 500 new or legalized units as property owners carve basement apartments out of what used to be storage lockers, laundry rooms or garages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A senior San Francisco building inspector who had been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly failed to report a loan from a politically connected developer has resigned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's housing discourse is in the toilet. Supervisor Matt Haney is preparing to do battle with Mayor London Breed's administration over the number and placement of portable bathrooms serving the city's unhoused and unsheltered residents. Opportunities for the supervisors to do anything about the conditions putting people on the streets, meanwhile, go begging. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A senior San Francisco building inspector has been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly failed to report a loan from a politically connected developer for whom he had performed multiple inspections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's pandemic-battered condo market bounced back with a vengeance this spring, scoring its busiest three-month period in at least 16 years as vaccinated buyers rushed back into the city to take advantage of pricing that is still significantly below its 2018 highs, according to a new report from the brokerage Compass. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the past seven years, the Mission District has become San Francisco's busiest neighborhood for affordable housing development, with 1,100 units in the pipeline and a steady drumbeat of groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings blessed by ceremonial Aztec dancers and lauded by politicians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - After a contentious plan to compel denser residential construction around public transit and in wealthy suburbs failed last year, a group of California lawmakers convened to figure out a unified path forward on addressing the state's housing shortage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California renters are in trouble, and the clock is ticking to help them. The state's emergency eviction protections and rental assistance program will expire at the end of the month. An extension is critical. California may be reopening, but the economic devastation COVID brought on working renters is going to linger for some time. If we want to keep families who are unable to pay rent due to the pandemic in their homes, we need to give them more time to recover. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When voters approved a tax hike on San Francisco's most expensive property sales in November, they likely thought the funds would go directly to rent relief and affordable housing - as advertised in the campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A decade-long push by city officials to pressure office and market-rate developers to carve out land for affordable housing is starting to pay off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It would have been entirely understandable if the pandemic had prompted Enrique Landa to hit the pause button on the $2 billion redevelopment of San Francisco's Potrero Power Station, which was shut down a decade ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of public housing tenants at Plaza East Apartments sued the property owner and management on Tuesday over pests; mold and mildew; inadequate heat broken plumbing, electrical wiring and appliances; and lack of security. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco will extend the city's moratorium on residential evictions for three months and could also keep its own version of more generous state tenant protections, set to expire in June, through the end of the year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 20-year crusade to build affordable housing in downtown Livermore won a unanimous victory Tuesday when the city council approved a development that had divided the city and fueled accusations of racism and elitism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-month extension of the city's moratorium on residential evictions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Applause echoed around the lobby of the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco on Monday morning as staff, from cooks to janitors to managers, lined up to welcome the first batch of guests the hotel has seen since the pandemic forced it to close 14 months ago. A group of four from Arizona entered from the back of the lobby under television screens emblazoned with the San Francisco skyline that flashed "Welcome Back." The group posed for photos with staff who formed their hands into hearts before being rushed by no less than three television news crews for interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Marin Municipal Water District is considering banning new water service hookups to homes in response to worsening drought conditions. But the move could hurt future housing development in an area already in dire need of more homes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. is in the middle of a record-setting boom in home values and a massive squeeze in supply. But the Bay Area has been somewhat cushioned from these effects, according to a recent Zillow report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Someone stole $650,000 from a San Francisco nonprofit group that helps poor people in a cybercrime so swift, silent and perfect that the victim didn't know for weeks that the money was gone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hundreds of California housing developments could avoid getting delayed for years by expensive and time-consuming environmental lawsuits under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the latest sign that the pandemic has done nothing to mitigate California's housing crisis, the median price for a single-family home in the state broke $800,000 for the first time last month, according to data released this week, while the Bay Area hit a record $1.3 million. The state's median grew 7% over the previous month, also a record, and by a third over prices a year ago, reaching about 2� times the national figure. Even seasoned observers of our perpetually overheated housing prices are using terms like "feeding frenzy" and "chaos." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After more than a decade of saving money and establishing roots, Adam Rhuberg and his wife finally thought they were in a position to buy a house in Marin County. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Piedmont and Oakland are neighbors, but the cities are very different demographically - and in how they approach building housing. With new, much higher housing goals set by the state, small, wealthy Bay Area enclaves like Piedmont are suddenly being asked to plan for a lot more housing, including a lot more affordable homes. And some Piedmont residents want to look to Oakland for help. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Oakland Planning Commission voted Wednesday to move forward with a development proposal for a 28-story high-rise and 19-story office building at the Lake Merritt BART Station. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a fire tore through a Victorian on Shotwell Street in the Mission, the building - which used to house six seniors in a residential care home - sat empty for six years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SANTA CRUZ - Each home has its own character in this coastal town's Friendship Garden neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Arroyo Green, a 117-unit low-income senior building, opened last month in downtown Redwood City. One of the first residents to get his keys was retired commercial printer Bryant Vanbeckun. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]