SantaCruz.com, CA
By Kat Lynch Fri, Jun 19, 2009 On Thursday night the Capitola City Council left its special meeting about rezoning for high-density affordable housing torn between approving two or three sites and setting the stage for a showdown next week over a …
Wall Street Journal
Much of that increase is thanks to a growing number of pockets of recovery in the housing market. In Northern California, the median price has risen for four straight months in Santa Clara and for three months in Contra Costa County, according to …
Times of the Internet
San Jose Mercury News, USA
By JONDI GUMZ CAPITOLA - The Capitola Gardens apartments on 46th Avenue would be a poor choice for more high-density housing to meet a state mandate, four City Council members said Thursday night. Mayor Bob Begun and Councilmen Ron Graves, …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, a Foster City-based nonprofit housing developer, plans to purchase the 200-unit complex for $6 million and will ask for a $125000 loan from the city redevelopment agency to cover an assessment of the property. …
Daily Review Online
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA
By Kurtis Alexander SANTA CRUZ — Four acres in the Seacliff community was set aside for high-density homes by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, pushing the county past its long-sought state quota for housing. Assuming the Mid-County site and five …
San Jose Mercury News
Bizjournals.com, NC
Members of the Santa Clara City Council are expected to vote Tuesday evening on whether to approve a proposal to build up to 806 residential units on the former Kaiser Permanente medical center site. The proposed development, called the Gallery at …
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
Retired salt ponds are not the place for housing - they are a golden opportunity to restore healthy wetlands that scientists say the bay's wildlife desperately needs. The rise in the sea level makes it even more urgent to restore shoreline marshes …
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News, USA
For weeks, hospital representatives and county supervisors have wrestled over the terms for what would be the last of six housing sites needed to meet the state mandate. Thursday, just weeks before the deadline, a Dominican spokesperson told the …
Santa Cruz Sentinel
San Jose Mercury News, USA
By focusing new housing construction on underused sites in seven "smart spots" ringing the bay, more than 80 percent of the region's projected need for housing can be met by 2035, according to a three-year study by Greenbelt Alliance. years, …
San Francisco Business Times
San Jose Mercury News
Bizjournals.com, NC
The California Housing Finance Agency, the state's provider of affordable loans for first-time homebuyers, said Monday it will offer a new mortgage option called Cal30. To use CalHFA's programs, homebuyers must meet certain income and sales price …