The San Jose native says the public needs to be more engaged in development to address the dire shortfall of places to live in Silicon Valley.

As negotiations proceed over the proposed expansion of the elite university, here are a few takeaways from the plan.

The apartment is slated for a 45-acre swath of land in the Calle del Mundo neighborhood and is part of a larger mixed-use development.

As state lawmakers debate measures that would allow homeless students to park overnight on campus, dorms offers an alternate path.

Sam Liccardo wants to offer financial incentives for San Jose homeowners who build accessory dwelling units on their property.

Last month, Cecilia Martin became one of more than 140 once-chronically homeless tenants to move into the first-of-its-kind complex.

The question of whether to raise taxes forged an unlikely alliance between the most conservative and most progressive council members. 

Proponents framed the project as exactly the type of development that San Jose needs to correct its stubborn jobs-housing imbalance.

SB 50 would have prevented cities from banning mid-rise apartments around public transit, but it failed to advance past a key committee.

If elected officials had the political will, they’d address the issues with the seriousness it deserves rather than platitudes like “we can do better.”

San Jose’s homeless population went from 4,350 in 2017 to 6,172 this year. For Santa Clara County, it grew by 31 percent.

A unique proposal going before the council aims to give instructors at Santa Clara University a way to weather the affordability crisis.

Some $138.5 million won’t be going into San Jose’s affordable housing fund this year because of exemptions to market-rate housing projects.

The City Council will hear an update on the city’s affordable housing plan, among other development-related items on the agenda.

Through this mechanism of retaining land ownership, we expect that Measure A funds will support the housing needs voters approved.

The county needs to make more deals happen and gain as much leverage as possible on the voter-approved funds.