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New Law Will Allow More Housing Near Bay Area Transit Stations Today California YIMBY released the following statement in support of… Read More

New Law Requires Cities to Match Zoning to Housing Goals Today California YIMBY released the following statement in support of  Governor… Read More

Yesterday U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development released a statement via Twitter that claimed he is “Taking on the NIMBYs” by “reducing… Read More

Many descendants of California homeowners enjoy a significant perk that keeps their property tax bill low. Part of that is thanks to Proposition 13, which… Read More

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They’re not building anything that ordinary people can… Read More

If you’ve hung around the CityLab site, sat through a City Council meeting, or hobnobbed with a housing developer, you’ve probably run across the term… Read More

By nearly every measure, the American housing sector is broken. For decades, city, state and federal policies have contributed to rising rents, falling subsidies and… Read More

Business leaders up and down the state say California’s expensive housing makes it challenging to recruit new workers — and to keep existing employees here. Read More

The lights are flashing, ever redder and more urgent, on the Bay Area’s housing crisis. How bright do they have to get before… Read More

The life science industry in California remains robust, with more than 360,000 jobs in biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics – but the soaring cost of… Read More