housing

San Jose police officer files discrimination suit against department

A 21-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department has filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination from multiple officers in…

6 years ago

Amid housing shortage, SF speeds review of in-law units

San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued an executive order on Thursday to speed up the process of approving a backlog…

6 years ago

Former East Bay nonprofit worker sentenced for stealing funds

A former caseworker at an East Bay nonprofit organization has been sentenced in U.S. District Court to one year in…

6 years ago

Supportive housing targets end to chronic homelessness

San Francisco officials on Wednesday celebrated the opening of a new housing project that consists of 50 units for chronically…

6 years ago

Court blocks eviction of North Beach senior

A state appeals court in San Francisco has overturned a judgment allowing the eviction of an 83-year-old man who has…

6 years ago

Eighth-cent parks tax heads to Son­oma voters

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors moved to place an eighth-cent transactions and use tax for deferred maintenance and improvements…

6 years ago

Santa Cruz motel fire displaces 69 guests

An electrical malfunction is being blamed for a two-alarm fire early Sunday morning that caused about $120,000 in damage.

6 years ago

Hayward council strengthens rent control

The Hayward City Council has voted unanimously to impose an 18-month emergency moratorium on a process in which landlords can…

6 years ago

Salesforce tower opens for business

The tallest building in San Francisco is now officially open for business. Several city officials joined Salesforce employees in a…

6 years ago

Bay Area house prices rocket to new records

Housing prices in the Bay Area jumped 14.7 percent from 2017 and hit a new peak of $820,000 in March…

6 years ago

Vallejo motel fire displaces 20

Twenty people were displaced by a two-alarm fire at a Motel 7 in Vallejo on Monday afternoon, a fire department…

6 years ago

State receives $212M in disaster recovery funds

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than $212 million for long-term natural disaster recovery efforts…

6 years ago

Competing housing activists raise din over transit-centered units

San Francisco housing activists opposing a bill that aims to increase housing near public transit statewide called on the city's…

6 years ago

Laundry dryer fire displaces 6 in Balboa Park

A laundry machine fire displaced six people Sunday morning in San Francisco's Balboa Park neighborhood, fire officials reported.

6 years ago

SF State faculty bark over rent increases, eviction

A housing group based at San Francisco State University Thursday condemned the university for allegedly raising rents on employee housing…

6 years ago

Oakland sues landlord for illegal rent increase

Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker said Tuesday that she and Centro Legal de la Raza have filed suit against a…

6 years ago

San Jose falls short of affordable housing goals

The San Jose City Council will decide exactly what next steps to take on Tuesday evening after a recent housing…

6 years ago

$10M committed to SF affordable housing

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission committed $10 million Wednesday to establish a loan fund to help nonprofit developers acquire and preserve…

6 years ago

Housing, jobs envisioned in ‘Central SoMa’ plan

City officials Tuesday introduced legislation that would create 40,000 jobs and 7,000 new housing units in San Francisco's South of…

6 years ago

Balboa Park welcomes $1.6M community garden

A new community garden has opened in San Francisco's Balboa Park neighborhood, the Recreation and Park Department said.

6 years ago

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