In the wake of recent wildfires, homeowners and builders in the Bay Area and across California are rethinking the ways to better protect their homes. Jimmy Singer's family has lived on the heavily ...

Bay Area residents have a major hurdle to setting up a granny flat — plugging in to the state’s largest utility. Homeowners can wait a year or more to get power from Pacific Gas and Electric to their ...

Outside Morgan Hill in southern Santa Clara County, an orchard could be razed for 320 single-family homes. On a pasture on the northern edge of Benicia, cows could give way to 1,080 houses. On a quiet ...

For over a decade, developer Forrest Linebarger has tried to build new multifamily housing on two half-acre parcels in Los Altos Hills. The city has done all it can to stop him. Affordable homes ...

The inability of modular housing manufacturers to create economies of scale, hurdles to financing and regulatory challenges make it difficult to develop sustainable affordable housing in the Bay Area.