2024
"Housing at historic Berkeley site now ‘full speed ahead’ after surviving objections"
A large apartment project planned at the site of a former Regal United Artists movie theater in Berkeley survived objections over the building’s historic status – clearing the way for the project to move forward in the process.
...More"Why Japanese cities are such nice places to live"
“America is a place where you live INSIDE your house, your car, your office, or maybe a mall.
Japan is a place where you live OUTSIDE, in public spaces that are made to provide you with both adventure and comfort.”
"NIMBYs still block housing in San Francisco. They’ve just updated their language"
New housing is always ‘too tall,’ ‘too dense’ or just ‘not right for this neighborhood.’ Is there anywhere we can build desperately needed homes?
...More"Vacant East Oakland land to become homeless senior housing"
The latest Homekey award from the state will create 40 units of housing on city-owned land.
...More"CA Court Ruling Could Crack Down on Tactics to Delay or Block Housing Construction"
California’s perpetual conflict over housing, pitting advocates of state-level pro-development policies against defenders of local government land use authority, has often involved friction between two state laws.
...More"Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back."
Founders and investors who moved to Miami and elsewhere are returning to a boom in artificial intelligence and an abundance of tech talent
...More"The Great Compression"
Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.
...More"‘I was just shocked’: City concerned about run-down Berkeley student housing co-ops"
The four-story, 118-year-old residence has water stains on the walls from leaks. A sundeck sags precariously above a room with asbestos in the ceiling and a pantry littered with rodent traps. A storage closet sits nearly empty, its emergency supplies never replaced after an overflowing bathroom destroyed them in 2022. And a mold test kit covered in brown fungus perched for months on a downstairs windowsill.
...More"People’s Park Foes to Press on with Suit"
UC Berkeley has more than 45,000 students and has forecast adding 8,500 more in the next 12 years …
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