Housing

Park's art installation fails to meet San Mateo's vision - The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner
SAN MATEO — San Mateo — One of the 14 kinetic and interactive art installations at Seal Point Park is not working as planned, so city officials are …

SFPD's new $5000 mini-rides - San Francisco Chronicle border=

SFPD's new $5000 mini-rides - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Ma is also on the Labor Committee, the Higher Education Committee, the Housing Committee, the Revenue and Tax Committee and the Public Safety Committee. It's a combination that puts her in daily contact with just about every special interest and every …

SF: SUMMER PROGRAM WILL EMPLOYEE TEENAGERS IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING UNITS - CBS 5 border=

SF: SUMMER PROGRAM WILL EMPLOYEE TEENAGERS IN LOW-INCOME HOUSING UNITS - CBS 5

CBS 5, CA
About 40 teenagers between 16 and 18 years old will start training for work Tuesday at their low-income housing units in San Francisco through a pilot summer work program recently announced by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Summer Empowerment and Employment …

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Housing needs demand group effort - The San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner, California
Facing an uphill battle in the long-running fight to provide ample affordable housing in The City — a challenge only exacerbated by the recession — officials are now thinking more creatively to figure out how people can afford to live in San Francisco. …

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San Francisco sure is square on windows - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
He's been there longer than Bill Dunkle has owned the bar, longer than Nick Gaffney, who has an office on the block and has been trying to find him housing, and longer than Gavin Newsom has been mayor. "Ten years," Gaffney said. "Isn't that crazy? …

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Purdy: Run for 49ers stadium ready to go - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
And it wasn't your job as a Santa Claran to increase the assets of homebuilders with a program that has helped subsidize housing in your city. But you and your elected officials decided that making all these people more wealthy would also make the …
Modesto Bee

More than 400 rally at Natural Bridges over fight to save parks - San Jose Mercury News border=

More than 400 rally at Natural Bridges over fight to save parks - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Considering she could lose her job and housing, Rachel Arias, a 24-year state parks employee who lives inside Big Basin, said she was thrilled by the citizen outrage. “It's a pretty scary feeling, after working this may years,” said Arias, …

RICHARD COHEN: Reactions to Sotomayor nomination show elitist ... - Daily Breeze border=

RICHARD COHEN: Reactions to Sotomayor nomination show elitist … - Daily Breeze

Daily Breeze, CA
She was raised in public housing projects. She grew up in the Bronx, which the average person must think of as a particularly nasty part of Mumbai, and she is, finally and incriminatingly, Puerto Rican. This is all, apparently, very hard to imagine. …
South Coast Today
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AB 650 now would tap four sources of state funding - Half Moon Bay Review and Pescadero Pebble border=

AB 650 now would tap four sources of state funding - Half Moon Bay Review and Pescadero Pebble

Half Moon Bay Review and Pescadero Pebble, CA
By Mark Noack [ mark@hmbreview.com ] New language added to the AB 650 legislation would give Half Moon Bay a no-interest $10 million loan from four state sources — three state conservancy funds and one housing fund. The amendments were made to the bill …

Salt flats could spawn another Foster City unless brakes applied - San Jose Mercury News border=

Salt flats could spawn another Foster City unless brakes applied - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
At the present time, the city has approximately 12000 housing units and a population of 30000 on 3.8 square miles of land. Commercially, Foster City hosts large businesses such as Gilead Sciences. Now, a development rivaling Foster City could be …