Rockridge never saw it coming.
2026
"San Francisco rents are soaring, but city report finds that building housing still isn’t economically feasible"
San Francisco has seen demand for space explode in the past three years. Amid an ongoing artificial intelligence boom, office vacancy has finally begun to fall, apartment rents are hitting records and demand for single-family homes has exploded.
...More"New Gateway building creates dedicated campus hub for AI, computing"
The state-of-the-art facility will be the new home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, promoting cross-collaboration and accelerating AI-driven discovery.
...More"Washington Passes First Statewide Scissor Stair Reform"
The measure ushers in more light-filled, infill-suited apartment homes—and sets a model for other states.
...More"My illegal neighborhood"
From May 2017: For many years I lived in Northwest Portland, Oregon.
It was a part of the city first settled by white pioneers in the 1860s, but development really took off when the streetcar arrived in the first half of the 1900s. (A century later, the old streetcar tracks had to be dug up so they could put down the new streetcar tracks.)
...More"America’s Driving Mandate: Don’t Call It “Freedom”"
There is a story Americans like to tell about ourselves: that we love our cars, our cul-de-sacs, our three-car garages and two-car commutes. That we “chose” this. That suburban sprawl is the natural expression of an American preference for space, privacy, and the open road, and that anyone who suggests otherwise is a coastal scold trying to force us into a crowded apartment over a noisy bar.
...More"Idaho’s Big Housing Breakthrough Year"
From ADUs to starter homes, lot splits to ‘manufactured in Idaho,’ Gem State leaders just opened up more housing options in a price-crunched state.
...More"Why everyone loses money in real estate"
Let’s get this out of the way. If your career is the buying, selling, developing or redeveloping of real estate, you will lose money one day. There are simply too many variables beyond your control — sometimes beyond your imagination — that can slam your project.
...More"‘Hands off my Trader Joe’s’: Oakland neighborhood reels from plan to replace store with housing"
Residents and elected officials in the Oakland neighborhood said they were blindsided by the news Wednesday that a San Francisco developer had submitted plans to shutter the neighborhood’s two-decades-old Trader Joe’s store on a tree-lined stretch of College Avenue and replace it with two residential towers, the taller soaring to 31 stories.
"Cheap Rooms Once Prevented Homelessness. We Need Them Back."
Inexpensive single-room-occupancy dwellings were common in America decades ago, but overregulation has driven them from the housing market.
...More"The Rise of the Urban Knowledge Campus"
To reinvigorate office life, large companies are relocating to mixed-use neighborhoods that offer easy access to transit, housing, and amenities.
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