Housing

Two bills the Bay Area Council is sponsoring to remove barriers to an untapped source of affordable housing and improve how California uses data to...

Bay Area Council Senior Vice President Matt Regan on March 9 championed the benefits of second or accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to the Senate Com...

Simple policy changes by cities around the Bay Area to ease permitting of secondary units could produce a tsunami of affordable housing. That was t...

Even more evidence surfaced this week that solving the Bay Area’s housing shortage and reducing its impact on lower-income households can be acco...

Exploring how modular construction could offer a promising solution to the Bay Area's housing shortage, assuming local zoning and building regulati...

East Bay Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (Richmond) this week (Jan. 28) was appointed chair of a new Select Committee on Regional Planning in the San ...

A robust network of connections among top business executives, innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and investors is a major reason the...

On Wednesday (Jan. 27), the San Francisco Board of Appeals denied an appeal against 75 Howard Street, a residential development that the Bay Area C...

Fascinating new research by two UCLA urban planning scientists concludes that stringent and restrictive land use regulations, lengthy public review...

Well-coordinated regional planning is absolutely critical if we are to address the region’s housing affordability crisis, upgrade its congested t...