ArtHaus || Bay Area Housing Tracker

Housing Policy Developments

• 🔥 California voters will decide on an $11 billion housing bond to fund low and middle-income units, veteran and...

Bay Area Policy Developments

• 🔥 SF Fee Cuts: San Francisco Planning Commission voted 4-2 to cut inclusionary housing requirements to 5 percent...

San Francisco posted the nation's highest rent growth at 6.3% year-over-year, pushing already elevated costs higher for tenants.

• The Planning...

Multifamily housing starts plunged 40.2% nationally in May to 295,000 units amid elevated interest rates, rising construction costs, and labor...

Pulte Homes' 140-unit condo project, including 21 affordable units, on a former industrial site near Warm Springs BART advances Fremont's decade-old...

Oakland voters will decide in November on charter reform granting the mayor veto power over council actions, moving the city toward a strong-mayor...

PNC has raised a $251M multifamily fund projected to deliver more than 1,700 affordable homes across a 16-property portfolio that includes rehabilitation projects. This demonstrates continued institutional interest in affordable housing equity.

Bay Area developers are tackling the housing crisis through distinct but complementary paths.

• Brownfield redevelopment converts former industrial...

Congress reached a bipartisan compromise on a major housing bill, with final votes possible within a week before it heads to the president.

California is advancing housing reforms through both direct voter action and legislative channels, giving developers dual avenues to watch.

• Ballot...

Bay Area Zoning Reforms

• 🔥 SB 79 Implementation: SB 79 takes effect July 1, 2026, legalizing taller housing near BART, Caltrain, and VTA...

• Delivery headwinds: US affordable housing starts eroding due to rising construction costs, elevated interest rates, labor shortages and declining...

Proactive sensor networks are replacing complaint-driven maintenance in multifamily buildings, cutting costly water damage and improving...

SB 79 takes effect July 1, 2026, legalizing taller housing near BART, Caltrain, and VTA stops. This directly enables higher-density TOD projects along...

Using private activity bonds paired with 4% LIHTC presents distinct issues for affordable housing developers, providing a viable structure that ArtHaus can adapt to complement middle-income workforce projects.

Policy Shifts for Faster Approvals

• 🔥 HCD Guidance on Rezoning Exemptions: HCD issued guidance exempting infill, TOD, student housing, and...

Local governments are tweaking state transit-oriented development mandates with targeted adjustments rather than outright resistance.

• Los Angeles...

May housing starts missed expectations at just 1,177,000, as completed single-family inventory exceeded the critical 120,000 threshold and multifamily...

San Francisco's grocery store redevelopment trend accelerates with a proposed 379-unit, six-story project at the Bernal Safeway site, leveraging state...

Pulte Homes plans to build 140 condominiums near Fremont's Warm Springs BART station, highlighting accelerating transit-oriented development momentum in the East Bay.