By Karen Chapple and Jackelyn Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 2022. Joint UC Berkeley-Stanford research suggests more aggressive housing affordability strategies would bolster new market-rate supply and tenant protections.
New study: data shows new housing and tenant protections are still not enough Read More »
By Mike Schneider, Associated Press, March 24, 2022. The San Jose metropolitan area also lost tens of thousands of residents, primarily from people moving away.
More than 116,000 SF residents moved away during pandemic’s first year Read More »
By Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse News Service, March 22, 2022. The audit recommends passing a state law that would mandate periodic assessments of underutilized state-owned properties for affordable housing.
Audit: California overlooked potential affordable housing sites Read More »
By Eli Wolfe, San Jose Spotlight, March 22, 2022. The projects represent an ongoing campaign to build up the region’s housing stock for veterans, agricultural workers, seniors, and people with developmental disabilities.
Santa Clara County buys land for more affordable housing Read More »
By Eli Wolfe, San Jose Spotlight, March 19, 2022. VTA hopes to collect steady revenue from land leases and new riders living near transit.
VTA bets big on housing in Santa Clara County Read More »
By Amy Coval, San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2022. The Chronicle’s 11 measures are based on widely available data, but don’t take affordability into account.
How the Bay Area’s 25 largest cities rank on ‘quality of life’ metrics Read More »
News about Sarah Allen, AICP; Nisha Chauhan, AICP; Ranu Aggarwal, AICP; Samuel Gutierrez; Christopher Nicholas; Renata Robles; Kate White; and Jerry Wilburn. Assembled by associate editor Mari Hsu.
Interviewer Catarina Kidd, AICP, uncovers the high and low points in a 52-year career, not including an additional 13 years as editor of Northern News.
Meet a local planner: Naphtali H. Knox, FAICP Read More »
Cynthia F. Campbell, a director in HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research, reflects on transit in Lisbon, Portugal, and dinner with the family of a Ukrainian naval officer. April 4, 2022.
Lisbon’s Walkability Read More »
SPUR has made the majority of its programming free to the public. Here are excerpts from their events calendar for the balance of April and May 2022.
Free SPUR events for April and May Read More »
