News, Views and Analysis from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) announced the selection of housing policy, finance and development veteran Kate Hartley to serve as Director of the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA). Read More
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) has approved the Association of Bay Area Government’s (ABAG) Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Plan. Read More
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) at Thursday night’s Executive Board meeting approved the Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031. Read More
A new analysis looks at the lowest-priced listings currently on the market in the most expensive zip codes. Read More
A new study looks at what neighborhoods saw the most apartment construction in the last five years in San Jose, San Francisco and other big cities across the nation. Read More
PropertyShark has just released its annual ranking of the 100 priciest zip codes in the United States and it shows homes in the Bay Area are among the most expensive in the nation. Read More
With an average of almost 190 daily moves from California to Texas from 2010 to 2019, a new report looks more closely at where exactly residents of The Golden State are moving to in Texas and what they get in the tradeoff. Read More
Among the 20 biggest metros areas in the nation, the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley ranks first for downsizing savings, according to a new study from STORAGECafé. Read More
Several key bills aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis – including one supported by MTC and ABAG – have been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Read More
American suburbs have been demographically reshaped in the past decade – according to Census data. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of suburban renters grew by 22%, which drove 103 suburbs in the nation’s largest metros to flip to a renter-majority population, according to a new report from RENTCafé . Read More