Author Archives: Niloo Nouri

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.

“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.”

New housing is always ‘too tall,’ ‘too dense’ or just ‘not right for this neighborhood.’ Is there anywhere we can build desperately needed homes?

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.

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.

Founders and investors who moved to Miami and elsewhere are returning to a boom in artificial intelligence and an abundance of tech talent

Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us.

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.

UC Berkeley has more than 45,000 students and has forecast adding 8,500 more in the next 12 years …

Urban fabric is to humans what water is to fish.