Housing

The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in a case in which the Bay Area Council submitted an amicus brief to end excessive and often ...

Excessive and often arbitrary local fees have long contributed to California’s housing crisis, driving up the cost of building, making new homes ...

It was a busy week on the housing front, with a key federal court ruling smacking down a lawsuit challenging legislation (SB 828, Wiener) the Bay A...

No wonder San Francisco’s housing crisis seems worse than anywhere else. A scathing report by the California Department of Housing and Community ...

It was standing room only at the Bay Area Council Housing Committee meeting this week as members met with top lobbyists and UC Davis Professor and ...

Following a Herculean advocacy effort, the Bay Area Council yesterday (Sept. 14) cheered the passage of legislation (AB 1633, Ting) that many in th...

The Bay Area Council applauds state Sen. Scott Wiener on his resounding success in passing SB 423, which extends his landmark housing production st...

New research shows the benefits of the Bay Area Council’s landmark accessory dwelling unit (ADUs) reforms and that those benefits may be even bro...

Today was a great day for housing reform in California, with priority housing bills passing out of a critical final legislative committee that the ...

If California was as good at making it easy to build housing as it is making it difficult to build housing, we’d have no housing crisis at all. T...