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COUNCIL-SPONSORED BILL TACKLES DEARTH OF STUDENT HOUSING

Feb 26 2018

Across California an estimated 762,000 college students experience some form of housing insecurity or homelessness because of the state’s massive...

TRAFFIC RANKING POINTS TO URGENCY FOR BIG INVESTMENT

Feb 9 2018

Not that Bay Area residents need a reminder of how urgently we need to invest big on regional traffic relief, but a ranking released this week by c...

LEADERS DISCUSS WAYS TO SOLVE THE BAY AREA’S HOUSING CRISIS

Feb 9 2018

The Bay Area’s top business and political leaders converged at Facebook today (Feb. 9) to recommit themselves to addressing California’s housin...

Voters to Decide $4.5 Billion Traffic Relief, Transit Improvement Plan

Jan 24 2018

The Bay Area Council today (Jan. 24) loudly cheered a decision by the Bay Area Toll Authority to seek voter approval in June 2018 for Regional Mea...

REGIONAL MEASURE 3 TAKES IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD

Jan 12 2018

A bold plan to invest $4.5 billion across the region to ease traffic and improve mass transit for millions of commuters took an important step forw...

WITH RECORD BUDGET PROPOSAL, GOV. BROWN SEES RAIN IN THE FUTURE

Jan 12 2018

There hasn’t been a lot of rain so far this winter, but Gov. Jerry Brown had the wet stuff on his mind this week (Jan. 11) when he released a $19...

11TH ANNUAL ECONOMIC FORECAST CONFERENCE ON JAN. 19

Jan 5 2018

What is the economic outlook for the Bay Area in 2018 and beyond? How will national and international trends affect our region? Join the Bay Area C...

2018 POLICY AGENDA TARGETS HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, WORKFORCE

Dec 8 2017

Behind the Bay Area Council’s continuing advocacy, the California legislature this year took its first (albeit modest) actions to address the sta...

BREAKING THE SILENCE ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Dec 8 2017

The issue of sexual harassment has burst into the open in recent months as a growing number of women across the country have shared graphic and pai...

Bay Area Leads Nation in Squeezing Most Economic Value from Water

Nov 28 2017

The Bay Area not only is one of the stingiest water users in the country it also squeezes more economic value out of every precious drop than any m...

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