San Jose leaders will consider key changes to the city’s rent laws, including some that empower landlords and others that favor tenants.

A new database compiled by renowned sociologist Matthew Desmond gives us the clearest picture yet of the silent epidemic of displacement.

Developers would have to pay prevailing wages and hire local workers for subsidized projects under a proposed compromise measure.

A new report coming before the City Council shows just how far San Jose has fallen short of its state-assigned affordable housing goals.

If the Sunnyvale shelter closed, it would not only be a disservice to the people who stay there, but to the community at large as well.

Meet the two unknown candidates who are challenging San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo in his bid for re-election.

After months of intense debate, San Jose has proposed three possible sites for tiny homes for the homeless.

Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom swung through the South Bay to talk about education, tech, income inequality, Trump and more.

San Jose and its surrounding metro area is home to all but one of Redfin’s Hottest Neighborhoods in 2018.

The founder of onRoute22 talks about how to provide an antidote to the isolation experienced by someone who is newly housed.

With Republicans poised to rewrite the tax code, local governments have been trying to figure out how to brace for the fallout.

San Jose city leaders again rejected a proposal to link rent hikes to inflation, which advocates hoped would offer relief to cash-strapped tenants.

Advocates for the elderly say the housing crisis imperils the health of seniors, who are harder hit than most tenants when faced with eviction.

With housing costs growing far faster than wages, San Jose officials are considering whether to link rent control to the rate of inflation.

Two cash-strapped renters are appealing a judge’s dismissal of their claim that a San Jose land-use policy flouts state affordable housing law.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to build 25,000 new homes over the next five years.