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San Jose renews focus on safety

The Hill

Public transportation leaders request $36B in emergency funds

Mercury News

Oakland passes new tenant rights protections to stop ‘harassing’ by landlords

Mercury News

Eviction, rent-increase moratoriums extended in Contra Costa County

Marin Independent Journal

Novato council approves Hamilton townhomes project

Half Moon Bay Review

City’s affordable housing ideas sputter in crisis

San Francisco Chronicle

Bigger, badder storms coming in years ahead, and California is right in their path

San Francisco Chronicle

Caltrain might have to shut down after supervisors scuttle sales tax measure

San Francisco Chronicle

BART, expecting to lose $975 million over 3 years, begs feds for money

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Sonoma County sales tax extension for roads, infrastructure approved for November ballot

San Francisco Examiner

Crowded neighborhoods left out of Slow Streets

Mercury News

A good Samaritan’s roadside stop led to marriage, three daughters: Roadshow

East Bay Times

High rents make Bay Area tenants most stressed in the country

San Francisco Examiner

450,000 new homes for the Bay Area —where will they go, and who will decide?

Mercury News

United Way launches relief fund for Bay Area renters

Mercury News

Pulte homes buys San Mateo site for big residential development

Mercury News

Lafayette official calls for appeal of big housing project’s approval

Press Democrat

PD Editorial: Progress on homelessness but unfulfilled promises, too

NBC Bay Area

Contra Costa County Extends Moratorium on Evictions

San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego council places $900M housing bond on November ballot

Cal Matters

Trump’s smog decision fails to protect Californians from unhealthy air, experts say

New York Times

Trump to Weaken Environmental Rules to Speed Infrastructure Permits

Local News Matters

Regional parks board completes plan for former Concord weapons station land

Marin Independent Journal

Marin’s Huffman to pitch massive U.S. climate crisis plan

Marin Independent Journal

Huey Johnson, Marin County environmental leader, dies at 87

Mercury News

San Jose drivers blast proposal to add dozens of digital freeway billboards: Roadshow

Mercury News

Coronavirus: California DMV extends expiring licenses to drivers over 70

Sacramento Bee

California DMV gives another extension to seniors with expiring driver licenses

Fairfield Daily Republic

Air district wants Bay Area employers to extend telework options

Local News Matters

Santa Clara County pledge encourages telecommuting to preserve air quality

NPR

Subways Sparkle, But Does Cleaning Decrease COVID-19 Risk?

Marin Independent Journal

Sausalito to purchase bank building for $2M

NBC Bay Area

Apple Gives $400M to Help Fight California's Housing Crisis

Marin Independent Journal

Editorial: San Rafael targets healthier path for development

San Mateo Daily Journal

New Bay Area housing goals in question

New York Times

G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change

San Francisco Chronicle

Back to the drawing board: A plan to make SF a bike and pedestrian utopia

KGO TV

Caltrain introduces new safety measures for Bay Area riders during coronavirus pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle

Jeffrey Tumlin was hailed as SF’s transportation savior. Now the Muni chief faces a leadership test

San Francisco Examiner

Riders should expect big changes when Muni rail returns in August

San Francisco Examiner

Half of Golden Gate Transit commuter buses suspended starting Sunday

San Francisco Chronicle

‘I’m with Muni — how can I help?’ Annalee Newitz’s short fiction imagines a new kind of social support system in SF

New York Times

Think You’ve Seen the Subway? Not Like This You Haven’t

Mercury News

Motorcyclists, please quiet those loud exhaust pipes or pay a $1,000 fine : Roadshow

Mercury News

Finally, a stranded driver story with a happy ending

San Francisco Chronicle

Montague Expressway Closed This Weekend While Pedestrian Bridge Hoisted Into Place

San Francisco Chronicle

Will luxury condos sell in a pandemic? SF high-rise is the market’s first big test

San Francisco Chronicle

Twisty white Mira tower is dazzling on the skyline, but less so on the ground

San Francisco Chronicle

Welcome to the Throughline: A new series about the Bay Area of tomorrow

San Francisco Chronicle

It’s time to rethink downtown SF. Here’s one of the most radical visions out there

San Francisco Chronicle

Hope is alive in the Tenderloin: What the neighborhood needs now to reverse decades of neglect

Mercury News

Apple taps first $400 million of $2.5 billion California housing pledge

Mercury News

Coronavirus: Bay Area rents drop, but it’s not just the pandemic

Mercury News

Bay Area home sales plummet during coronavirus, but prices rise

NBC Bay Area

Making It in the Bay: Bay Area Home Sales Plunge, Prices Remain High

Marin Independent Journal

Editorial: Consider the pandemic and slow the removal of occupied Richardson Bay boats

Napa Valley Register

City to evaluate Napa hotel straddling Wine Train line; two historic homes to be moved

Napa Valley Register

City planners to review post office-to-hotel conversion in downtown Napa

Berkeleyside

‘A mini-urban miracle,’ new Berkeley homeless housing could be model for the state

NBC Bay Area

Rent Prices Drop in Some Parts of Bay Area, Rise in Others During COVID-19 Crisis

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