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Emergency Management: California Wildfires: Its a People Problem
Even as fires rage across California, thousands of new homes are being built deeper into our flammable foothills and forests,…
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Mercury News: Sunnyvale mobile home park’s last holdouts cling to hope as demolition looms
Underneath the bulging eyeball that overlooks a road into Blue Bonnet Mobile Home Park, a sign advises: “Slow Down.” But…
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Mercury News: After a real-estate deal that triggered $1,000 rent hikes, Oakland families face eviction
With its crumbling popcorn ceilings, cracked tile and worn carpeting, the apartment Rafael Luna and Evelia Cruz have called home…
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Mercury News: Experts: Urgent cures required for Bay Area housing, traffic ailments
Innovative — and swift — remedies are required if the Bay Area and the rest of California can begin to…
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Mercury News: Relief for mobile home owners: Tax and fee amnesty available
In the often paycheck to paycheck world of mobile home living, many homeowners lack proper title and registrations for their…
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Mercury News: Affordable housing in California takes hit under GOP tax plan
The new Republican tax overhaul will likely chop plans for thousands of new affordable homes in California and further squeeze low-income…
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Mercury: New, $1 billion program will bring rooftop solar to California renters
Over the next decade, roughly 150,000 low-income renters in California will see their apartment buildings outfitted with solar panels —…
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Mercury News: Affordable and teacher housing would be permanently fast-tracked under San Francisco ballot initiative
The notoriously long process to build teacher housing and other subsidized homes could get shortened in San Francisco under a…
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Mercuruy News: Milpitas boosts 100% affordable housing project
A proposed $74 million, 100 percent affordable housing development meant to help alleviate the high cost of living in the…
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Mercury News: GOP tax proposal would gut affordable housing, state officials say
Less than two months after California passed hard-fought bills to build more subsidized rental housing for the poor, affordable-housing advocates…