Making It in the Bay

In less than a week, California’s eviction moratorium will end.

An audit finds California has been slow to distribute rental assistance money for residents struggling during the coronavirus pandemic and the state risks forfeiting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds.

The burned husk of a home in Walnut Creek is listed for $850,000.

A wealthy San Francisco couple notched a record nearly half-million-dollar buyout to vacate their luxury apartment of three decades

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers have agreed to extend rental protections through the end of September

It is getting more expensive to live in the Bay Area and we can blame it on inflation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers agreed Friday to extend the state’s eviction moratorium until Sept. 30 and increase funding relief to tenants and landlords.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will pay off all past-due rent that accumulated due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Contra Costa County family is getting evicted with no place to go despite the county’s eviction moratorium.

A grandmother in the East Bay managed to stop a private equity firm from buying the home she was living in with the help from a new state law inspired by the Moms 4 Housing movement.

Dropbox has become the latest tech giant to vacate San Francisco, as its four-building headquarters has sold for a whopping $1.08 billion, according to a report from San Francisco Chronicle.

New research from a nonpartisan think tank has found that the popular notion of a mass exodus from California last year is wrong

Lack of housing is one of the defining issues of life in the Bay Area. It’s hard to imagine one person making a difference, but an Oakland man says he’s willing to give it a try. Garvin Thomas reports.

Using data from cell phones as well as change-of-address forms, researchers have determined that between 1.5 and 3% of San Francisco’s population left the city for surrounding counties or other states over the past year, according to a report.

Dozens of homeless families and seniors in Oakland will not be ringing in the new year on the streets. They’ll be celebrating in new dorm-style apartments, all thanks to money from the state’s Project Homekey initiative.

A Vallejo couple out of work during the coronavirus pandemic is now making tables to earn money.

Statewide eviction protections — aimed at keeping hard-hit renters in their homes — are set to expire in the new year. So what does this all mean for tenants who now owe thousands in back rent and their landlords who are struggling to pay their own mortgages?

Apartment rents continued to plummet in the Bay Area’s biggest cities, with San Francisco seeing a nearly 25% plunge since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, according to a report from researcher Apartment List.

Delivery network OnTrac, which has facilities throughout the Bay Area, has warehouses stocked full of packages because of the online shopping boom. Now, they need to find more employees to keep up with the demand.

Alley-Oop Kids was founded to help kids get the gear they need to play youth sports. But in the midst of a pandemic, it’s found a new calling. The teen-run nonprofit just launched a mobile app to help you donate your old laptop or tablet to kids who need to attend school remotely.