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.
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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 »
San 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.
Identity in infrastructure: North Fair Oaks banks on road project to revitalize area Read More »
Profiles 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.
SPECIAL REPORT – Living in Silicon Valley: Profiles of communities in transition Read More »
Mountain 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.
Mountain View may increase development fees to fund affordable housing Read More »
