After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

“It’s so sad,” Riaz Taplin, an Oakland apartment investor since the early 1990s, said. The bulk of his 2,000-unit portfolio is in the East Bay city.

With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a ...

Construction of what will be one of the largest mass timber towers in the world at 1510 Webster St. in downtown Oakland seen in August 2023. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters ...

Questions linger about whether many of the displaced will return to communities. Also, is the soil healthy? Is the air clean?

Thanks to Measure U, a number of low-income housing projects are underway. Meanwhile, market-rate construction has plummeted.

The forces of housing won. With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a decisive swath of urban residential development ...

Construction of what will be one of the largest mass timber towers in the world at 1510 Webster St. in downtown Oakland on Aug 7, 2023.

A developer that wants to build 254 apartments on a long-vacant 21-acre site just off East Oakland Avenue has a rezoning ...