East Bay real estate

East Bay real estate

"I have lived experience living in a car and being homeless. Safe parking is really probably your best benefit." - Drew Siegler, advocate.

"We're talking about revitalizing our neighborhoods and rebuilding our communities that are facing blight and abandonment. We're also talking about adding tax dollars to our revenue stream and creating new economic opportunities."

To find a building with this scale, flexibility, and existing group housing use in such a prime location is extraordinarily rare.

One resident of Princeton's Western Section told the room, 'Those of us who own historic homes are subsidizing the community' - and was met with applause.

Disney secretly owns nearly all the homes on the east side of Keystone Street, creating a living picture of single-family paradise in sunny Los Angeles. The long run of houses, driveways and front lawns looks that way because the Walt Disney Company demands it.

The northeast corner became a symbol of Texas growth: prices soared, commutes stretched and master-planned communities stacked up so tight you could borrow sugar through the fence.

A pair of bills would have required local zoning codes to allow multifamily and mixed-use residential development by right across broad swaths of commercially zoned land. Supporters said the approach could convert underused strip malls, parking lots and office corridors into thousands of apartments without case-by-case rezonings.

The walk, and the houses surrounding it reflect a period when Berkeley's hills were becoming a laboratory for new architectural ideas rooted in craftsmanship, landscape and a belief that the built environment could shape daily life for the better.

Construction of the two-story building at 77 Harrison Ave. is complete, as is the landscaping. The interior finishing work is wrapping up, and library staff are starting to move in brand-new furniture, books and equipment. The library's opening was delayed after the City of Campbell was awarded a $500,000 grant from Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) to build an all-electric facility after plans for the new library had already been approved.

Rhode Island is becoming a model for housing policy in other states. We've passed more than 60 new housing laws that are having real results. He cited a 70% increase in building permits in 2023, the largest since the Great Recession. He also noted that construction takes time. We are still trying to play catch-up for all the years that Rhode Island was dead last in the country for new housing starts.