Increased traffic, soaring construction and rising real estate costs have prompted more than 500 Redwood City residents to sign a petition asking for a moratorium on approval of new commercial buildings.
Redwood City residents pushing to slow construction amid building boom Read More »
A coalition of Mountain View residents is pushing the city council to freeze rents at a time when soaring housing costs are threatening to displace more tenants.
Mountain View Tenants Coalition demands rent moratorium Read More »
Across the Peninsula, most cities’ local laws don’t address how to deal with Airbnb and other short-term rental companies. But that might change with the upcoming 2016 Super Bowl.
In Silicon Valley, it’s good to be Airbnb — for now Read More »
This statewide trend is illustrated locally across the Bay Area and in San Francisco, where the best hospital labor and delivery metrics are often in areas where median housing prices are some of the lowest.
Instead of doing costly repairs to update Meyer Library to meet new safety standards, Stanford is taking it down to make way for an open park.
Stanford’s landscape changes with demolition of iconic Meyer Library Read More »
Silicon Valley continues to struggle with having sufficient affordable housing options as rental prices skyrocket and mobile home parks disappear.
SPECIAL REPORT: Affordable housing headaches on the Peninsula Read More »
Silicon 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.
Renters struggle to keep up in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood Read More »
As 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.
California’s affordable mobile home parks vanishing Read More »
Residents 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.
Local officials taking steps to help Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents Read More »
With skyrocketing rent in the region, low-income residents are struggling to find affordable housing in San Mateo County.
A housing crisis that stretches from north to south Read More »
Even with its enormous wealth per capita, Santa Clara County had the largest percentage of unsheltered homeless in the country this year.
Santa Clara County’s homeless hope for hotel rooms after shelter closes Read More »
A 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.
Shootings vanish as Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood transforms Read More »
