Housing

A (CAUTIONARY) TALE OF TWO REGIONS

We’re number 1. That was one of the conclusions of a commentary that ran this week in the Los Angeles Times comparing the economies of the Bay Ar...

COUNCIL’S VISION FOR MORE COORDINATED REGIONAL PLANNING GETS BOOST

The Bay Area Council weighed in this week on a proposal to merge the region's housing and transportation planning agencies.

HOUSING COMMITTEE READIES SOLUTIONS TO HOUSING SHORTAGE

Regional housing leaders met this week to put the finishing touches on the Bay Area Council’s 2016 Housing Strategy, which will employ a variety ...

MAYORS CHAMPION REGIONALISM

If the Bay Area is to avoid being a victim of its own success, it will increasingly need to pull together and solve problems as a region, not as in...

COUNCIL CHEERS IMPORTANT CEQA WIN; MONITORS OTHER KEY CASE

In a closely watched case in which the Bay Area Council submitted an amicus brief, the California State Court of Appeals ended one of the most draw...

DAMNING REPORT ON PROPOSED HOUSING MORATORIUM

A damning report released today (Sept. 11) by the San Francisco Office of Economic Analysis put an exclamation point on the Bay Area Council’s op...

COUNCIL PUSHING BACK ON HOUSING RESTRICTIONS AND “JOBS TAX”

The Bay Area Council is pushing back against efforts to impose restrictions and fees that would further limit housing and job growth.

COUNCIL-BACKED SF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GETS OK

A transit-focused residential tower the Bay Area Council Housing Committee recently endorsed that will add badly needed units to San Francisco’s ...

WUNDERMAN NAMED ONE OF CA’S TOP 100 MOST POWERFUL (#51)

Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman (who asked that we not run this story - sorry Jim!) on Tuesday (Aug. 25) was named to what has become THE List i...

Preparing the Bay Area FOR a COMING MEGA-STORM

California is learning a hard lesson about inadequate drought preparation. But if California’s hydrological record teaches us anything, it’s th...
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