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(Caelyn Pender/Bay Area News Group) Officials count signatures for a proposed rent-control ordinance on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at the Redwood City Library. The Redwood City Fair and Affordable Housing Ordinance proposes tenant protections such as rent control and limits on landlord evictions that advocates say are stronger than protections currently in place. (Caelyn Pender/Bay Area News Group) REDWOOD CITY — A proposed rent control resolution could be on the ballot in Redwood City this November after a coalition of community members presented more than 6,000 signatures to the Redwood…

SAN JOSE — Wide-ranging work is underway to convert a well-known San Jose office tower into housing, a project that could enable rentals of the future residences to begin sometime in 2025. The project aims to remake the Bank of Italy historic office tower downtown into a residential high-rise with at least 100 apartments. If completed, the transformation would be one of the first successful office-to-housing conversions in the Bay Area. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and facing a sluggish commercial real estate market, a number of developers…

Fall colors drape over Sonora Drive in San Mateo, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, where a historic designation proposal has created controversy. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) To demonstrate it is serious about building new housing, the city of San Mateo must show state regulators a list of places where new development could be built in the next eight years. The city’s list includes several sites along El Camino Real, as well as the popular Bridgepointe Shopping Center. But there’s no way that housing could realistically be built on these sites…

Construction workers work on the Tilda House, a 22-story tower on Treasure Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The 250-apartment tower is the first ever high-rise structure built on the island. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) California housing regulators are demanding that cities statewide develop meticulous plans to add 2.5 million affordable and market-rate homes by the end of the decade — but some local officials say the process sets them up for failure. Frustrated Bay Area mayors and city councilmembers say the new planning requirements…

Newly shipped cars on the AMPORTS’ lot on Wilbur Avenue in Antioch, Calif., on Monday, May 20, 2024. AMPORTS is an automotive logistics and processing facility where cars are shipped from abroad for distribution. The Gen On energy plant is to the right. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Businesses in China may have never heard of East Contra Costa County, but they soon will as a small group of Bay Area mayors, including ones from Antioch and Oakley, travel there this week to promote the area’s economic strengths with hopes…