2+ week, 4+ day ago   (302+ words) Seniors living in a low-income housing building in downtown Oakland say their safety and maintenance concerns are being ignored. With the help of translators and tenant advocates, the mostly Cantonese-speaking community held a rally Tuesday to complain about recent break-ins,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (330+ words) A San Jose City Council vote Tuesday could dramatically reshape the way the city looks in the future. If approved, the so-called middle housing proposal, recommended by the Planning Commission, would allow four to 10 units of multi-family housing to be…...

1+ mon, 53+ min ago   (333+ words) The victims of the fire at a condominium complex in Foster City are asking elected officials to push for a state of emergency declaration. Jocelyn Moran reports. The fire affected about 50 units, left roughly 150 people displaced and injured four firefighters....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) More than 20 seniors traveled by bus to Sacramento Thursday to protest the conditions at their East Oakland affordable housing complex and implore state officials to take enforcement action against their landlords and property managers. As NBC Bay Area recently reported,…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (433+ words) With the November midterm election coming up, California voters will have several propositions to consider in addition to candidates. Fourteen new propositions, ranging from the environment to taxes, will be on the ballot. Proposition 1 attempts to address affordable housing. Housing…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (152+ words) Alameda County supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour. The proposal would nearly double California's current minimum wage of $16.90 and would phase in the increase over several years, with larger businesses…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (401+ words) College students are gearing up to head back to campus, but for many in the Bay Area, finding a place to live has become a significant challenge. Damian Trujillo reports. San Jose State University continues to be a popular college…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (351+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a housing bill Monday that will change how the state finances and delivers new affordable housing units. The signing took place at the Clara E. Chan Lee Residences currently under construction in Oakland's Chinatown. Newsom was joined…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (140+ words) Andre Lucas' social media videos have gone viral for his interactions in San Francisco's Chinatown. San Francisco man's mission to live affordably in the city A recent San Francisco transplant is on a mission to live affordably in the city....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (167+ words) Median home prices in California are at an all-time high with Bay Area sales helping set a new record for the state, the California Association of Realtors said. New numbers released by CAR show the median price for a single-family…...