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Tag Archives: housing
Planning for Climate Change in a Growing Bay Area
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This won’t come as a surprise to Bay Area residents: the region is still growing. By one estimate, the Bay Area will add two million people by 2040, a 30 percent increase over today’s population of about seven million. More … Continue reading
Silicon Valley Has Nation's Highest Rents
It comes as no surprise to anyone who has tried to find an apartment in Silicon Valley. But in case you had any doubt, the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed on Tuesday that rents there are the highest in the country. … Continue reading
San Francisco Has Second Least Affordable Rental Market in US
How do you afford a studio apartment in San Francisco? Well, if you're earning the minimum wage, you work 72 hours a week by the calculations of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. And that's getting off easy. San Francisco … Continue reading
San Francisco Measure Could Help Some Homeowners--and Hurt Renters
By Sam Harnett Update: The Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee, which had been expected to vote on a one-time fix for tenancy-in-common homeowners who want to convert their units to condos, will put off consideration of … Continue reading
Calif. Joins Lawsuits Against Standard & Poor's Over Mortgage Crisis
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Tuesday joined the U.S. Justice Department and 12 other states in suing Standard & Poor's credit rating agency for allegedly inflating its ratings of mortgage-backed securities. The suit claims that S&P's inaccurate ratings caused … Continue reading
If You're in the Market For a Home in the Bay Area, Yes You Missed the Boat...But There's Still Hope
If you're in the market for a house or condo, first the bad news: real estate prices in the Bay Area are climbing, as much as 16 percent over last year in some areas. "We did have a brief window … Continue reading
West Oakland: Bubble, Burst, Rebirth
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Marilyn Reynolds bought her West Oakland home in 2001 for $600,000. In 2010, after her husband's work dried up and they split up, she was forced to sell it for $180,000 – to avoid foreclosure. Reynolds isn't alone. Today, new … Continue reading
An Interactive Map of the Cheapest Places to Rent in the Bay Area
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A few weeks back we shared an interesting map by the real estate startup Kwelia, showing residential rents by Bay Area zip code. The most expensive zip codes were in red, while the cheapest were in light yellow. On Sunday Kwelia launched an update … Continue reading
San Francisco Found 2nd Least Affordable Housing Market
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Things are looking up in the Bay Area for home builders, but for home buyers, the news remains pretty dismal. That's the report from the National Association of Home Builders, which on Monday issued a list of metropolitan areas where … Continue reading
Portrait Gallery: Faces of San Francisco Affordable Housing
It's a hard time to find an affordable place in the city. Rents have climbed 10 percentat a time of year when they're normally going down. Exacerbating the problem, San Francisco lost millions of dollars in low-income housing funding when Gov. … Continue reading
