By Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation, August 27, 2021. New local financing strategies and the state’s first regional affordable housing financing authority look to bridge funding gaps in the next five years of the current planning cycle.
Bay Area cities and counties falling dramatically short of affordable housing goals Read More »
By Erika Paz, Calmatters, August 24, 2021. California’s Department of Housing and Community Development cited Oakland and two other cities over using public land for arenas without integrating affordable housing.
How arenas like the Oakland Coliseum became emblematic of California’s housing crisis Read More »
By Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside, August 24, 2021. Cal must redo the SEIR to address certain issues, including how student enrollment increases have affected noise, housing, and displacement in Berkeley.
Judge rules that UC Berkeley must study the impacts of growth before raising enrollment Read More »
By Georgia Freedman, SFGate, August 23, 2021. Neighbors argue that CloudKitchens, a kitchen-to-delivery startup, gamed the city’s zoning and permitting process to operate in a low-income area.
Oakland residents fighting a mysterious startup taking over their quiet street Read More »
By Mary Callahan, The Press Democrat, August 23, 2021. Opponents claim the city’s 2015 Urban Water Management Plan considered an “erroneously rosy supply outlook”.
Tension over new development rises amid water scarcity in Healdsburg Read More »
The recent 31-page report sees the dearth of new affordable housing in high cost, high productivity areas as having “a negative impact on the nation’s economic output.”
HUD report on housing affordability in high-cost, high-productivity metros Read More »
By Stephen Avis, AICP. The far northern region of our Section recently hosted three Zoom workshops as part of a longstanding Brown Bag Lecture Series. Plans for Crescent City and Humboldt County were presented.
Planning news from the Redwood Coast region Read More »
By Pamela Blumenthal and Regina Gray, in PD&R Edge, HUD USER, September 7, 2021. Government actions to reduce barriers to housing production are not limited to jurisdictions in the headlines, such as Minneapolis, Portland OR, and California. They are appearing in communities nationwide.
Opportunities to preserve housing, increase production Read More »
Congrats to Samuel Assefa, Zachary Dahl, Richard Davis, Miroo Desai, Adam Forster, Julia Koppman Norton, Eric Luchini, Robby Miller, Diego Mora, Andrea Ouse, Ben Ulrey. Assembled by Hazel Choi, associate editor.
By Alan Murphy and Angela Luh, September 20, 2021. The opinion in California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund v. City of San Mateo reinforces and upholds significant limitations imposed by the Housing Accountability Act on local consideration of housing development applications.
Calif. court upholds limiting local governments’ ability to deny housing developments Read More »
