Housing

Oakland is experiencing the biggest drop in rent among the country's 100 largest cities.

Elizabeth Hirschhorn, the "Tenant from Hell" currently occupying a guest house at a palatial estate in Los Angeles, faced a similar situation in Oakland just months before she moved into the L.A. home, court records show.

Attorneys for the Coalition on Homelessness say city workers are inadequately trained in dealing with clearing homeless encampments and those who reside in them. City officials say these are unsupported accusations.

City and county officials are calling this complex a multigenerational hub in Santa Clara.

Residents of Little Woods Mobile Villa in Petaluma fear they may be homeless after receiving notices that their monthly rent would increase by 300% or more a month.

The growing interest in a San Francisco sleeping pod complex has drawn the attention of city officials.

The race for San Francisco mayor is heating up and now has 29 candidates vying for the position. 

San Francisco can again enforce laws around the removal of homeless encampments following a recent clarification from a federal court that stems from a lawsuit over the treatment of unhoused residents on city streets.

Despite a continued downturn in home sales in California, median home prices reached its highest level in more than a year, with the Bay Area recording the biggest annual gain in the state, according to new figures.

According to Apartmentlist.com, rents in the Bay Area having taken their biggest year-to-year dip over the last 27 months.

Oakland is one of seven California cities to receive a housing improvement grant from the state, officials announced on Monday. 

A billionaire-backed plan to transform 55,000 acres of land into a utopian oasis in Solano County faces a significant hurdle, according to county officials in a press release issued on Wednesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill last week that lawmakers say will help speed up the process of building new affordable housing in California. 

The developers of a rejected building that is proposed for 2700 Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco have filed a new proposal for the site.

After many months of reporters trying to find out who was buying up a large chunk of rural Solano County, we now know that an investor group, Flannery, which now calls itself Forever California, is behind the silent and mostly secret project.

A group that's acquired more than 50,000 acres of land in Solano County has released the first renderings of the city they allegedly hope to build. 

For years, a shadowy company has been buying up land near the Travis Air Force Base. Now we know who's behind it and what they want.