January 25, 2021
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- Palo Alto-based NIMBY think tank says Bay Area housing goals are wrong, others call it propaganda [Mercury News]
- One-Quarter of Bay Area Tenants Say They Can’t Pay the Rent [San Francisco Public Press]
- How the Bay Area's biggest housing development fell apart in 2020 [SF Gate]
- California eviction moratorium set to expire with rent coming due at end of month [San Francisco Chronicle]
- San Francisco is one of California’s most conservative cities — when it comes to housing [San Francisco Chronicle]
- California’s new bubble: Must overpriced homes crash? [Mercury News]
- Least affordable place for tech workers? Silicon Valley [East Bay Times]
- Novato schools seek developers for staff housing [Marin Independent Journal]
- Sunset District affordable housing discussion flooded with ‘scare tactics and hysteria’ [San Francisco Examiner]
Transportation
- More 100-mph speeders, more highway deaths: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- VTA manager tapped for deputy admin post with U.S. Department of Transportation [Local News Matters]
- VTA faces a sea of change, tough recruitment process following Fernandez’s departure [San Jose Spotlight]
- Report: New services plus transit equals more accessibility, equity, and sustainability [Transportation Today]
- The pandemic could devastate mass transit in the U.S. — and not for the reason you think [Politico]
- Bay Area transit operators raise alarm about virus cases, some threatening to stop work [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Behind schedule and breaking down: Is BART’s ‘Fleet of the Future’ in trouble? [East Bay Times]
- A power line falls on my car. Is it safer to stay inside it? Roadshow [Mercury News]
Other
- Storm tracker map: Watch the rain move in [Mercury News]
- Contra Costa supervisors laud retiring East Bay park district general manager [Local News Matters]
- What Biden’s presidency means for California’s environment [Cal Matters]