Housing

Council-Sponsored Bill Seeks to Accelerate Housing Permitting in San Francisco image

Council-Sponsored Bill Seeks to Accelerate Housing Permitting in San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the only jurisdictions in the country that requires developers to go through arduous and discretionary permitting processes...
<a>Majority of Bay Area Cities Shirk Housing Deadline</a> image

Majority of Bay Area Cities Shirk Housing Deadline

A majority of Bay Area cities and counties this week struggled to meet a deadline for submitting plans required by the state to show how they will ...
Council Celebrates Ruling for Livermore 100% Affordable Housing Project image

Council Celebrates Ruling for Livermore 100% Affordable Housing Project

A rabid anti-housing group in Livermore recently got a solid beat down in its lawsuit opposing a 100% affordable housing project by Bay Area Counci...
CEQA Court Case Could Be Unmitigated Disaster for California’s Housing Crisis image

CEQA Court Case Could Be Unmitigated Disaster for California’s Housing Crisis

The stakes could not be higher for addressing California’s historic housing shortage and affordability crisis than the outcome of a court case hi...
Building Support for More U.S. Investment in Housing image

Building Support for More U.S. Investment in Housing

The Bay Area Council and 30 of our members met this week with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg to hear more about ...
Biden Housing Plan Gives a Nod to Council Strategies image

Biden Housing Plan Gives a Nod to Council Strategies

Fresh off a successful DC advocacy trip that focused heavily on housing reforms, and our 2021 decision to open a permanent DC presence with Frank H...
New Homelessness Counts Offer Bad News, Good News image

New Homelessness Counts Offer Bad News, Good News

New data released this week shows that homelessness in the Bay Area is getting worse, with the region’s unhoused population up by 9% since 2020. ...
Encouraging News for Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Project image

Encouraging News for Oakland A’s Howard Terminal Project

The visionary plan by the Oakland A’s to transform an underutilized cargo terminal at Howard Terminal into a gleaming waterfront development got ...
New Regional Leadership Focuses on Housing Solutions image

New Regional Leadership Focuses on Housing Solutions

The Bay Area Council has long advocated for a strong regional approach to addressing our housing crisis, including supporting legislation that crea...
Bay Area Council Poll: Voters Say It’s Getting Much Harder to Find Housing image

Bay Area Council Poll: Voters Say It’s Getting Much Harder to Find Housing

Overwhelming support for ADUs, infill and transit-oriented housing and converting unused office space to housing; support also strong for allowing ...
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