
SPECIAL REPORT: Affordable housing headaches on the Peninsula
Silicon Valley continues to struggle with having sufficient affordable housing options as rental prices skyrocket and mobile home parks disappear.
Read MoreSilicon Valley continues to struggle with having sufficient affordable housing options as rental prices skyrocket and mobile home parks disappear.
Read MoreSilicon Valley’s tech boom is exacerbating a regional housing deficit that is pushing low-income residents to move out of the region to more affordable cities or stay put in tough living conditions.
Read MoreAs affordable housing for middle- and lower-income families is drying up by the month in California, among the hardest hit are those living in mobile home parks.
Read MoreResidents of Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park have won three small victories that may allow them to stay in their homes or receive adequate compensation if they have to relocate.
Read MoreWith skyrocketing rent in the region, low-income residents are struggling to find affordable housing in San Mateo County.
Read MoreEven with its enormous wealth per capita, Santa Clara County had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year.
Read MoreA new community garden. Facebook’s second campus. The drop in violent crime points to a public safety shift that’s characterizing a vast transformation of Menlo Park’s historically most-dangerous neighborhood.
Read MoreSan Mateo County is hoping to make a stretch of Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks a vibrant destination — not just a way station between Atherton and Redwood City.
Read MoreProfiles of Silicon Valley communities in transition, from transformations in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood to the unsheltered homeless in Santa Clara County to North Fair Oaks’ revitalization efforts.
Read MoreMountain View is considering raising fees on new construction to fund affordable housing, a move developers say would shift projects to other towns and council members say is necessary because of a decrease in government funding for the projects.
Read MoreThe Streetscape Project construction has driven street traffic to a trickle and caused businesses to lose up to 40 percent of their revenue, feeding frustrations among owners who aren’t being compensated for the losses.
Read MoreVoters in Menlo Park decidedly rejected a controversial initiative that would have cut in half the amount of future office space allowed in the city’s downtown and El Camino Real areas.
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