81 Percent of Homes in the San Francisco Metro Area Are Worth More Than $1 Million. That's Not Normal.
Restrictions on the supply of new housing are making California's cities increasingly unaffordable.
Restrictions on the supply of new housing are making California's cities increasingly unaffordable.
Community members in the Mission District worry that the proposed market-rate development will spur gentrification.
Leaving The Bay Area is a real estate brokerage that helps people decamp for cheaper, greener pastures.
Despite the claims of NIMBY activists, cities can build their way out of a housing crunch
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is on the receiving end of yet another negative government watchdog report.
Khsama Sawant is doing everything in her power to kill a 442-unit apartment project because it would replace an iconic concert hall.
Saddled with unaffordable requirements, Axis kills plans for a 117-unit apartment building.
Hysterical NIMBYism reaches new heights in Berkeley.
Austin was part of a group murdered in Tajikistan.
Expensive tax credits for renters are not the solution to America's housing woes.
In his sweeping reform proposal, President Trump suggests a privatization scheme for the GSEs behind the 2008 recession, but it doesn't go nearly far enough.
The owner of a "historic" laundromat has been thwarted at every turn in his bid to build apartments in a city in the midst of a housing crisis.
The 2018 "Out of Reach" report ignores the many options available to workers about how they live, work, and spend
Real estate investors worry a new construction tax will halt construction in an already-heavily taxed city.
The city attempts to wring more money from its employers rather than fix its housing problems.
A California bill that would have greatly liberalized zoning rules failed in the state legislature. The defeat has implications for the broader struggle to expand housing and job opportunities for the poor.
There are no angels in this long-running turf war.
Steel tariffs are likely to make prices rise further, particularly in markets where housing demand is already outpacing supply.
Now the city wants the laundromat studied to see if it is a historic resource.
Neighborhood residents demand a proposed affordable housing complex be five stories, not seven, to preserve "neighborhood character."
The city's new Linkage Fee law piles millions in new costs onto developers.
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
The state government should instead just get out of the way.
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
Developers blame new regulations.
California Treasurer John Chiang's conflicts of interest are not the first in the program's long and sordid history.
The move would likely put at-risk tenants out on the street.
Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down.
High rents have been a problem a lot longer then Airbnb has existed.
San Francisco activists push for more construction in Baghdad by the Bay.
Government rules and regulations on the local and state level have driven prices up.
The only solution is more housing. But people want the city the way it is: unaffordable.
Says the notion that expanding the housing market benefits both poor and rich sounds "counterintuitive"
60% of mayors in expensive cities favor requiring developers "to include more affordable housing in new projects even if doing so deters some new development."
Proposition F would have been a lawsuit factory for NIMBY neighbors.
Progressive politicians from L.A. to New York face a crisis partly of their own making
A new lawsuit claims New York's affordable housing program discriminates against blacks and Latinos.
Redefining language to arrive at anti-market solutions to government-exacerbated problems
Neutron bombs could not have emptied and destroyed the Bronx more effectively than did rent control.