Applications for the state’s high-demand loan program for first-time home buyers will close on Monday, April 29 at 5 p.m.
The move could prompt mayoral and Board of Supervisors candidates to adjust their housing policies to align with the Democratic County Central Committee's stance for endorsement.
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on if it's lawful for local governments to criminalize sleeping outside when shelter space is insufficient, potentially impacting urban policies...
A bill to ban unhoused encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/17/democrats-kill-california-homeless-camp-ban-again/
Cities rely on impact fees to maintain parks, schools and other amenities. But developers say the fees can prevent housing from being built. A series of new bills try to find a middle ground.
Last year’s mass shooting spurred local leaders to act. Dozens of homes for farmworker families should be ready in early 2024, but other projects could take years.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/15/half-moon-bay-prepares-to-break-ground-on-farmworker-housing/
A California Republican’s bill would exempt low- and middle-income wildfire victims from solar panels requirements on rebuilt homes that didn’t have them when they burned down.
The new rules also restrict where people living in RVs can park and sleep overnight.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/09/san-jose-leaders-ban-homeless-encampments-near-schools/
Despite allocating about $20 billion to address homelessness in California since 2019, the state experienced a 19% increase in unhoused residents, surpassing 181,000 individuals in 2023. A state ...
¿Sueña con comprar una casa en California? A partir del 8 de abril, el programa estatal California Dream for All está aceptando solicitudes para otorgar prestamos a quienes buscan comprar su p...
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/08/ayuda-a-comprar-su-primera-casa-california-2023/
While housing units sat empty the nonprofit handed out tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses and promotions.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is partnering with Assemblymember Buffy Wicks on a bill that would update a controversial housing measure known as the 'builder's remedy' meant to get more h...
Lottery applications for Shirley Chisholm Village, the first affordable housing project for San Francisco Unified School District teachers and staff, will begin April 2 and continue through April...
The California Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case brought over plans to build on the historic People’s Park — which could have larger implications for housing in the state.
SB 9, which went into effect in January 2022, allows property owners to split their lot into two parcels and build a duplex on each lot.
As more Californians have fallen into homelessness, more have died unhoused, but the state’s ability to track these deaths and assess the scope of the problem hasn’t caught up.
Big changes are coming to the way people buy and sell houses in the United States. The National Association of Realtors settled a lawsuit last week that could up-end the way real estate agents ar...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to study pilot programs that give cash straight to renters — instead of vouchers.
Landlords and tenant advocates are gathering signatures to put competing rent control and tenant protection measures on the November ballot.
The film details the fight between a longstanding black neighborhood and Palm Springs to remove a row of trees that has effectively hidden the community from view.
National Association of Realtors, one of the nation's largest real estate groups, has announced they’re settling a major antitrust lawsuit. What does that mean for homebuyers and sellers?
Without a site to reuse its state-provided trailers, which were set up at Pier 94 during the pandemic, San Francisco may donate a portion to Oakland and other cities around the Bay Area.
Mahan discusses the budget proposal he unveiled on Wednesday, doubling down on shifting funding toward temporary housing and shelter.
The latest returns show that the measure backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom is still too close to call.
As Californians deal with rising rents and a housing shortage, one group of mobile home park residents in Fresno County secured affordable housing for themselves by purchasing the land from the p...
The number of households becoming homeless for the first time spiked last year. Advocates say ongoing rent increases, stagnant wages and the expiration of pandemic-era protections are to blame.
Larkspur landlords are spending big to take down Measure D, which would impose rent control in the city, but tenant activists say it doesn’t go far enough.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/02/26/larkspur-voters-to-decide-future-of-rent-control-in-their-city/
It’s the third time in a decade that San Francisco voters will be asked to approve a general obligation bond for affordable housing.
Incumbent Marc Berman faces a challenge from a fellow Democrat — Palo Alto Councilmember Lydia Kou in the 23rd district.
The decision comes less than two weeks after the mayor announced the opening of 149 units at a hotel wedged between North Beach and Chinatown.