Aug 13, 2025 | Housing
By Mike Lewis / The Coast News Group /August 13, 2025
If you’ve spoken up at a city council meeting lately, you may have noticed something strange. If you raise questions about fire safety, infrastructure or water supply, you’re not met with dialogue, you’re met with a label: “NIMBY.” Not a neighbor. Not a taxpayer. Not a citizen. Just a “NIMBY.” This label is more than lazy rhetoric. It’s a calculated attempt to discredit residents who dare to question the wisdom of Sacramento’s high-density housing mandates.
Aug 5, 2025 | Housing
By Dick Spotswood
August 5, 2025
“California does not have a housing supply shortage.” That’s the startling title of a new report prepared by Mill Valley resident Gaetan “Guy” Lion. He’s an independent researcher focusing on local, national and global issues in economics, demographics, the environment and politics. It’s published on Lion’s Medium.com page.
Aug 4, 2025 | Housing
By Ariana Bindman,
Aug 4, 2025
For years, the state of California has struggled to build enough homes to keep up with persistent demand, leading to sky-high prices that have forced families to retreat from the coast and settle further inland.
Now, according to new data, international buyers — many of whom don’t reside in the U.S. at all — are setting their sights on California’s already-limited housing stock and paying for it in cash.
Aug 2, 2025 | Housing, Litigation
by CalMatters
August 2, 2025
New residential projects need to set aside a share of the units they plan to build for lower-income renters and homeowners under the terms of the city’s “inclusionary zoning” ordinance. Builders who refuse have to instead pay a fee, ranging from the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An East Palo Alto homeowner filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of that law, likening it to “extortion” — and he had a little help from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Aug 1, 2025 | Housing
by Hannah Bensen
August 1, 2025
Across the Bay Area, people are struggling to make ends meet, and finding affordable housing is a big part of the problem. Nowhere is that problem more acute than on the Midpeninsula, where money managers say it takes a million-dollar salary to afford a starter home – the highest home prices in the state of California.
Aug 1, 2025 | Housing, Legislation
by Grace Gormley
August 1, 2025
Menlo Park-based builder Acclaim Companies has revised its proposal for a housing complex at 762 San Antonio Road, a 197-apartment development that will go up in an area next to the Mountain View border where Palo Alto is trying to encourage housing growth. The new proposal has a larger facade, fewer affordable housing units and a roof deck, but will remain seven stories tall, with the five upper stories serving as housing and the lower two as amenities and a garage with 252 parking stalls.
