Housing

San Jose's City Council unanimously approved plans to transform a mobile home park into a housing development to ease the housing shortage. 

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf expressed empathy for the mothers who awoke to armed sheriff's deputies and a battering ram at the home they had been illegally occupying. 

Backers of an ongoing plan sheltering homeless families in San Francisco say the program is working and reaching families in need. 

Earlier Saturday, Wedgewood  said it's offering to pay for the women's move to a shelter run by a nonprofit and pay for them to stay there for two months.

On Friday, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth announced that Shola Olatoye will take the reins of Oakland's Housing and Community Development Department starting Feb. 11. 

The board in December approved spending nearly $12 million to buy or lease housing for the homeless, including dozens of the campers.

A judge on Friday ordered the homeless mothers who took over an empty home in West Oakland to vacate the property within five days. 

Mobile home residents in the South Bay are worried about getting evicted after they received a troubling letter, but the property owner is disputing the claims.

San Francisco plans to open 151 units of housing for homeless and formerly homeless adults. 

State Sen.Scott Wiener, of San Francisco, is leading the effort in favor of SB 50, the More HOMES Act, which would allow cities more flexible zoning to increase housing production. 

While tech has spread nationwide, Silicon Valley, for many, is the only place to be for innovation, inspiration and investment.

Some building owners are taking advantage of the loosening of restrictions and are turning garages into homes.

San Francisco home prices slipped 0.4 percent compared with October 2018.

The once cherished California dream and Bohemian charm of living on a floating home, is becoming more and more unattainable.