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The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, stoked tension, fear and mistrust among some neighbors. Silicon […]

The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, stoked tension, fear and mistrust among some neighbors. Silicon [...]

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The ''Yes in God's Backyard'' movement to build affordable housing on faith organizations' properties is gaining steam in California and elsewhere. Walking past empty pews and stained-glass windows, the Rev. [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty The 'Yes in God's Backyard' movement to build affordable housing on faith organizations' properties is gaining steam in California and elsewhere. Walking past empty pews and stained-glass [...]

A new report focuses on the prolonged struggle to build affordable housing across America and suggests federal incentives to help. Economists in the Biden administration are calling for more aggressive [...]

A new report focuses on the prolonged struggle to build affordable housing across America and suggests federal incentives to help. Economists in the Biden administration are calling for more aggressive [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty The YIMBY movement isn't just for liberals any more. Legislators from both sides of the political divide are working to add duplexes and apartments to single-family neighborhoods. [...]

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music For years, a mysterious company has been buying farmland on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, eventually putting together a [...]

The YIMBY movement isn't just for liberals any more. Legislators from both sides of the political divide are working to add duplexes and apartments to single-family neighborhoods. For years, the [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn't have a coffee table in [...]

Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot house that can be traversed in five seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn't have a coffee table in the living room [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty In Solano County, Calif., a who's who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families [...]

The company California Forever began collecting signatures last week for a ballot initiative that would essentially ask residents for permission to build. Residents of Rio Vista, an agricultural town of [...]

In Solano County, Calif., a who's who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families have been there [...]

Byline: Jeanna Smialek, Jim Tankersley and Conor Dougherty Buying a home is a less attainable goal for many young people, and rents are expensive. Could that dog Democrats in the [...]

Buying a home is a less attainable goal for many young people, and rents are expensive. Could that dog Democrats in the 2024 election? Cameron Ambrosy spent the first weekend [...]

At the first town hall meeting in support of the project, residents of Solano County, Calif., pelted one of its leaders with skepticism and questions. Jan Sramek has spent the [...]

At the first town hall meeting in support of the project, residents of Solano County, Calif., pelted one of its leaders with skepticism and questions. Jan Sramek has spent the [...]

When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened closed parks. In the [...]

When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened closed parks. In the [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty Homebuilders are responding to rising interest rates with an innovation: a small house in the traditionally spacious exurbs. The American home is shrinking. With interest rates rising [...]

Homebuilders are responding to rising interest rates with an innovation: a small house in the traditionally spacious exurbs. The American home is shrinking. With interest rates rising and mortgage costs [...]

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people. [...]

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people. [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty and Erin Griffith A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind [...]

In California, legislators come out as tenants to form a renters' caucus. When Matt Haney entered the California Legislature, he discovered he was part of a tiny minority: a legislator [...]

In California, legislators come out as tenants to form a renters’ caucus. When Matt Haney entered the California Legislature, he discovered he was part of a tiny minority: a legislator [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty Real estate agents are pushing sub-3 percent mortgages as an amenity, just like marble countertops or a view of the mountains. The only goal was to not [...]

Real estate agents are pushing sub-3 percent mortgages as an amenity, just like marble countertops or a view of the mountains. The only goal was to not lose money. When [...]

Conor Dougherty of The New York Times spoke with the governor about leveraging California’s market power to influence policies in other states. Gov. Gavin Newsom is angry. “I’m done being [...]

For a while this winter, seemingly every text message that Buffy Wicks received asked if she was running for Congress. Representative Barbara Lee, of California’s 12th District, which includes Oakland, [...]

Locked in at historically low interest rates. Platforms that make managing rentals a breeze. Homeowners have little incentive to put a house on the market. I'm part of the problem. [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty Hollywood has mostly failed to adapt successful video games into satisfying series and films. In an interview, the creators of this new zombie thriller explain why it [...]

Hollywood has mostly failed to adapt successful video games into satisfying series and films. In an interview, the creators of this new zombie thriller explain why it can be the [...]

The coffee rush. The lunch rush. The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations. The lanyard-wearing visitors who crowded the sidewalks when a big conference [...]

The coffee rush. The lunch rush. The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations. The lanyard-wearing visitors who crowded the sidewalks when a big conference [...]

Conor Dougherty of The New York Times spoke with the governor about leveraging California’s market power to influence policies in other states. Gov. Gavin Newsom is angry. “I’m done being [...]

Here's a list of places you might imagine seeing an argument over housing policy. A city council meeting. A late-night zoning hearing. Maybe a ribbon-cutting to christen a new affordable [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty and Soumya Karlamangla Laws to encourage more development and denser housing don't do much good if no one enforces them. As the state political calculus shifts, Gavin [...]

Laws to encourage more development and denser housing don't do much good if no one enforces them. As the state political calculus shifts, Gavin Newsom is trying to change that. [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty and Ben Casselman Right now, builders have too many homes and not enough people to sell them to. In the long term, the United States has the [...]

Right now, builders have too many homes and not enough people to sell them to. In the long term, the United States has the opposite problem: Not enough houses for [...]

As the central bank sharply increases borrowing costs, it could lock would-be home buyers into rentals and keep a hot market under pressure. Rents have been rising swiftly across America [...]

As the Federal Reserve tries to fight high inflation, costly mortgage rates have begun to price people out of the housing market. For the past two years, anyone who had [...]

Susan Kirsch is a 78-year-old retired teacher who lives in a small cottage home in Mill Valley, Calif., on a quiet suburban street that looks toward a grassy knoll. A [...]

Byline: Conor Dougherty and Jeanna Smialek Mortgage costs have jumped as the Federal Reserve has raised rates. With higher rates come fewer offers. Luis Solis, a real estate agent in [...]

Mortgage costs have jumped as the Federal Reserve has raised rates. With higher rates come fewer offers. Luis Solis, a real estate agent in Portland, Ore., marked a milestone weekend [...]

CATEGORY Retail Sales in March Grew as Inflation Soared Retail sales rose 0.5 percent in March, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday, climbing for the third consecutive month as prices [...]