Housing

The Bay Area Council’s housing bills are all doing well as the Legislature holds its first round of hearings. This week the Assembly Housing Comm...

With the Legislative session briskly underway, the Bay Area Council is excited that our priority housing streamlining bill (AB 1114) by Assemblymem...

While the news was good, even if it took so long, for a 315-unit housing project in Lafayette (item above), a report by the University of Californi...

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 and counties this week struggled to meet a deadline for submitting plans required by the state to show how they will ...

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...

The stakes could not be higher for addressing California’s historic housing shortage and affordability crisis than the outcome of a court case hi...

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 ...

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 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. ...