Author Archives: Niloo Nouri

Republican states like Texas are undergoing building booms and positioning themselves for a demographic takeover. Meanwhile, California dithers

State Senate Bill 79 to spur the creation of much-needed housing

The Bay Area is aging fast and our readers are noticing. Though population aging is a nationwide — and global — trend, the San Francisco metro area, which includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Marin counties, is aging faster than any other large U.S. metro area

California is the most expensive state in the country to buy a house for a host of reasons, including a lack of inventory and high costs of building.

A recent ranking by neighborhood and school resource site Niche placed the city of Berkeley at the top of its 2025 healthy places list, as it beat out 229 other U.S. locations.

On a sunny day in San Francisco, along the city’s waterfront, families dived into the wacky world of artificial intelligence inside the Exploratorium museum.

The California Association of Realtors uses its considerable political lobbying power to consistently oppose reforms to make homeownership more accessible

What I have learned from this recent New York Times article is that if you have a company with “AI” in the name — such as OpenAI, ScaleAI, Adept AI, Hayden AI, or Harvey AI — then you probably need to lease office space in an area of San Francisco (around the Mission District) that is now being called The Arena.

New Rochelle embraces development and makes it easy to build, leading to thousands of new apartments

Data shows that limited supply is associated with greatest rent increases in low-income neighborhoods