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BACPoll: One Third of Residents Ponder Leaving Bay Area
May 2 2016
Soaring housing costs stemming from a chronic shortage combined with an overwhelmed transportation system and grinding traffic are taking a heavy t...

Key Housing, Water Data Bills Move Forward
Apr 22 2016
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...

Council Pursues New Approach to Ease Housing Crisis
Mar 11 2016
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...

Council Works to Tap New Source of Affordable Housing
Feb 12 2016
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...

Report: Building Market Rate Housing Benefits Lower-Income Households
Feb 12 2016
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...

CAN MODULAR MANUFACTURING BRING DOWN HOUSING COSTS?
Feb 5 2016
Exploring how modular construction could offer a promising solution to the Bay Area's housing shortage, assuming local zoning and building regulati...

COUNCIL ENGAGING WITH NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL PLANNING
Jan 29 2016
East Bay Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (Richmond) this week (Jan. 28) was appointed chair of a new Select Committee on Regional Planning in the San ...

Bay Area’s Connectedness Key in Maintaining Economic Dominance
Jan 29 2016
A robust network of connections among top business executives, innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and investors is a major reason the...

Long-Awaited Win for 75 Howard Residential Development
Jan 29 2016
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...

NEW STUDY: NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF REGULATION, NIMBYS ON HOUSING
Jan 22 2016
Fascinating new research by two UCLA urban planning scientists concludes that stringent and restrictive land use regulations, lengthy public review...
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