Housing

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors discussed the eviction moratorium as rental housing providers increased pressure in hopes of ending the eviction ban, claiming it has ruined their livelihoods.

Alameda County's eviction moratorium has been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, banning most evictions and allowing some well-off tenants to exploit the emergency order for personal gain.

San Mateo County supervisors voted unanimously to earmark $750,000 to cover living and housing expenses of victims' families in the deadly Half Moon Bay mass shooting.

A family in Alameda won a $70,000 settlement in a tenant harassment case against their landlord, officials announced Monday.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed offered new details on her ambitious plan to create 82,000 news homes in the city.

While the battle over a housing plan for the town of Atherton ruffled the feathers of some residents, including power couple Steph and Ayesha Curry, in the end, city leaders who were up against the clock, had the last word.

San Francisco's newest permanent supportive housing development recently opened.

Warriors superstar Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha wrote a letter to Atherton city leaders voicing their opposition to a proposed multifamily housing development behind the couple's $30 million home in the swanky town.

As much as bitter cold weather is bad for plants, it's far worse for humans who are ill-housed or unhoused. Consider the bizarre plight of over some workforce achievers, nonetheless will mostly shiver in the Bay Area tonight.

As new details emerge in the aftermath of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting that left seven farmworkers dead, the massacre also highlights the harsh living and working conditions that some of those farmworkers endured.

Moments after approving an expanded goal for affordable housing construction on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors called on the state to build housing on top of San Francisco's California Department of Motor Vehicles field office parking lot. 

United Way Bay Area released a report last week showing 49% of the calls received on their 2-1-1 helpline in a 3-month period, were about housing insecurity and a lack of basic needs like groceries. The Bay Area group serves about 600,000 households, 80% of them people of color.

Ben Marcus is a landlord dealing with storm-related repairs in Oakland who has run into issues finding crews available to clean up damage following the Bay Area’s recent storms. 

Cheaper abortions, raises for some workers and grace for jaywalkers and loiterers are some of the hundreds of new laws that take effect in California next year.

Alameda County is the first county in the United States to ban landlords from criminal background checks on prospective tenants.

Some San Francisco property owners are offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to get renters out of their units. Housing experts say those buyouts being offered to renters is a sign that there is still not enough housing in the city.