Author Archives: Niloo Nouri

Buyers are ditching mortgages at the highest level in decades to win out in the Bay Area’s ultracompetitive housing market

If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine. The Raptor engine was developed for SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft (the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy use the Merlin engine);

One common yardstick for a California high school is how well it helps students gain admission to the most selective University of California campuses. But judging schools by raw admission rates alone can be misleading. Schools that enroll larger shares of students from high-income families and fewer students with disabilities, for example, tend to send more students to UC campuses regardless of school quality.

When a small space needs to feel a little bigger, mirrors are a good place to start. They bounce light, create depth and make even the smallest of rooms feel more open. From the expected to the unexpected, here are some of our favourite ways to use them to make your small space work harder.

YIMBYs, people in the housing abundance movement, do not have a pope or a set of sacred authoritative texts you can consult to find out what we think about things.

But if you asked me what YIMBYism is, I would say our big idea is that if some land is zoned for human development…

According to California’s statewide housing plan, the state needs to build just over 300,000 new homes each year to catch up with demand. Yet it consistently falls short of this goal.

Doug Thompson had already applied for roughly 30 homes in two months when an Oakland landlord invited him to make his best offer.

Why the most popular housing policy keeps failing the people it’s written for — a story told through an earthquake, a monsoon, a forty‑year waiting list, and a landlord who wanted his tenant to shovel snow.

After nearly two years of legal conflict over one of Menlo Park’s largest proposed developments on the former Sunset Magazine headquarters site, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sided with the developer, saying the city violated state housing law in its effort to stop the project.

That’s just one of many clever ways to make a small room feel bigger. With smart planning and creative thinking, you can create a spacious, comfortable home for yourself without breaking the bank or making your landlord anxious, say interior designers.