To help spur more backyard cottage construction, the city has given its seal of pre-approval to one vendor’s 495-square-foot dwelling design.

The South Bay’s poorest pupils sleep in cars, on couches and in the library—all while holding down day jobs and earning degrees.

The proposal is part of a broader effort to add 25,000 units—10,000 of them below-market-rate—to the city’s housing supply by 2022.

The county is trying to find what land it already owns on which to build below-market-rate housing for the region’s poorest residents. 

The initiative, which passed in a 9-2 vote, will come back for another reading and is slated to go into effect toward the end of September.

Supervisor Joe Simitian called the spending plan a “smart, humane and cost-effective” way to prevent homelessness.

Low-income renters and homeless people struggling to find a place to live that accepts housing subsidies may soon find some relief.

Three years after voters approved the $950 million affordable housing bond, the first project funded by the initiative is finally finished.

The 57-year-old high-tech program manager is up against Sergio Lopez for Campbell Council’s newly created District 2 seat.

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.