Affordable Housing

Oakland residents and newcomers may find a greater array of affordable housing in the city if an ordinance announced Tuesday becomes law.

Oakland residents and newcomers may find a greater array of affordable housing in the city if an ordinance announced Tuesday becomes law. Melissa Colorado reports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday was in downtown San Jose, joined by other state leaders, to sign a bill that paves the way for more affordable housing, creating more jobs and boosting California’s economic recovery.

An allocation of $53 million to help ensure that development being planned at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations includes 35 percent affordable housing was unanimously approved Tuesday night by the Berkeley City Council.

The Dublin City Council agreed Tuesday to partner with non-profit developer BRIDGE Housing on a 308-unit project near the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station that will be 100 percent affordable housing.

It’s something you don’t see every day. Crews placed a historic two-story pallesen apartment building on steel beams and hooked it to the back of a semi-truck in San Jose Sunday morning.

A historic old San Jose apartment building is moving down the street after spending its first 110 years.

The developer plans 70 to 144 affordable units on the site, which falls within the city’s Transit Oriented District of the Downtown Dublin Specific Plan.

For the second time in a week, a developer has proposed building a 100% affordable housing project at the site of a closed chain restaurant in South San Jose, according to the Mercury News.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors will likely approve more than $100 million in permanent housing for low-income residents.

A Bay Area developer has proposed a 100% affordable housing project at a South San Jose site where a popular chain restaurant closed permanently because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the Mercury News.

Facebook on Wednesday announced it is designating $150 million of its $1 billion affordable housing commitment to build housing for the Bay Area’s lowest income residents, and a South Bay project is among the first recipients.

The Walnut Creek City Council last week approved a $6 million loan to a Berkeley-based affordable-housing developer toward a $68.2 million, 95-unit mixed housing and commercial project downtown.

Three environmentally friendly projects slated to provide 462 units of affordable housing in Oakland have won nearly $90 million in state grants, according to an announcement Wednesday from the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development.

Tech giant Apple is making a $400 million payment on its $2.5 billion promise to help fight California’s housing crisis.

Santa Clara elected leaders Tuesday unanimously approved delaying plans for a massive hotel and requiring more affordable housing on the Gateway Crossings project, a plan approved nearly a year ago.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday a new ballot measure that seeks to get more affordable housing built in the city.

Caltrain officials are set to vote on a new policy that would bring more affordable housing to its stations.