October 3, 2019
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- Sue The Suburbs: One Nonprofit’s Plan To Solve The Housing Crisis [KPIX Project Home]
- New office tower gets underway in downtown San Jose [Mercury News]
- SJSU students blast university leaders for handling of housing crisis [Mercury News]
- San Francisco market rents soar up to 105 percent above average [Curbed SF]
- The new face of Sacramento’s affordable housing crisis: College students forced to drop out [Sacramento Bee]
Transportation
- You’ve been warned: ‘Carmageddon’ coming to Highway 101 in SF in July [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Highway 101 widening begins in Petaluma [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
- Support for Rainier extension despite funding gap [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
- A decade in the making, car-free Market Street faces final approval [San Francisco Examiner]
- San Jose’s LED streetlights ‘way too bright,’ or better than the yellow ones? [Mercury News]
Other
- 7 trillion tiny pieces of plastic wash into San Francisco Bay every year, new study shows [Mercury News]
- Huge amounts of plastic, much of it from car tires, washing into S.F. Bay, study finds [San Francisco Chronicle]
- EPA issues violation notice to San Francisco [San Francisco Chronicle]
- What we’ll lose at the water’s edge [San Francisco Chronicle]