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

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has blasted a proposal for a senior home development in the Evergreen foothills, calling it a gated community for the affluent. This came after the mayor failed to convince billionaire Carl Berg to sell the property to a Chinese investor.

Real estate billionaire Carl Berg and deep-pocketed developer Chop Keenan are squaring off with San Jose on a senior housing development.

Deanna Santana, the South Bay’s most prolific public mercenary, is taking her talents to Santa Clara.

One of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo’s top aides is bemoaning how owners of a commercial complex are pulling a bait-and-switch.

Whether it’s at the City Council or a school board meeting, San Jose is becoming unsafe for fans of free speech.

Records show that a handful of Sunnyvale’s city directors have benefited from loans that are nearly impossible to find on the open market.

A proposal to allow San Jose’s landlords to evict renters based on an arrest got little support at a recent housing commission meeting.

A developer's petition to rezone an industrial property for housing has elicited full-throated opposition from city officials worried about San Jose's jobs-to-housing imbalance.

Mountain View has no rent control, leaving many long-time residents feeling helpless as housing costs have skyrocketed. While the city has subsidized construction of hundreds of affordable units since 2005, using below-market-rates in lieu of fees from developers, it’s not doing enough to meet the needs of thousands of residents struggling financially, according to housing activists.

San Jose may update its procurement card policies to keep employees in check, after a recent audit found several examples of overspending.

Lax oversight has allowed people to take advantage of the city’s home loan help programs, according to an internal audit up for discussion at the City Council this week.

San Jose may join a host of other cities trying to cash in on subletting service Airbnb, a website that helps people rent out vans, whole homes, just the spare bedroom or anything in-between for extra income.

The City Council on Tuesday will consider a one-year, $650,000 contract with the San Jose Streets Team, an organization that finds work and housing for homeless people who can and want to work.

Business groups worry that San Jose could scare away developers if it imposes a fee on new home construction to pay for more affordable housing, an effort to recoup a fraction of the money lost when the state closed all redevelopment agencies. The City Council, which was supposed to talk about the inclusionary housing fee in December, decided to table the discussion until the new year.

A recent discussion within our community has focused on building even more single-family homes in areas that are reserved for jobs or fall outside of the urban service area. The proposal would allow those who convert industrial land to pay a fee per housing unit created. Those dollars would then be used to purchase open space in Coyote Valley. Although this idea may be worthy of discussion in theory, my concern is that such land use decisions would ultimately hurt San Jose’s economy.