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More stories about San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

  • Formerly homeless find a place to call home

    San Francisco — Many formerly homeless men and women are getting a new start at the recently completed Plaza Apartments.

  • Backfill: Keeping Up With the Munsters

    Moving stairs

  • Seismic Retrofit For Cripple Walls

    A good job addresses the building's weakest link - where the foundation attaches to the first floor.

  • Parting Shots

    San Francisco – A $400 million mixed-use redevelopment plan that included building a new cruise ship terminal south of the Bay Bridge, which connects San Francisco to Oakland, had been stalled for years until one of the phases, a 22-story condominium, ope

  • Honoring Cushing Dolbeare’s memory

    San Francisco — When it came to getting good media coverage of the disparity between the housing “haves” and the housing “have-nots,” no one did it better than Cushing Niles Dolbeare.

  • CHC rescues The Altenheim

    Oakland, Calif. — Citizens Housing Corp. (CHC) has saved The Altenheim here in the Fruitvale area from dereliction

  • Report: Housing moves further out ofreach

    THE NATIONAL HOUSING WAGE has grown to $15.78 an hour, reported the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) in its annual Out of Reach report.

  • AHF to focus on homeless children

    SAN FRANCISCO A man sitting by a freeway off-ramp asking for spare change. A woman pushing a shopping cart down the road. 

  • Blueprint for Successful Marketing

    Whether you're a small, one-person operation or a company with 50 employees, an effective marketing program will help you build a healthier business.

  • Q&A: Are Translated Policy Manuals Necessary?

    Q. Are Translated Policy Manuals Necessary? I believe an employee policy manual is required for general contractors in California, and employees must sign off on having read it. But many Spanish-speaking workers don't read English. How do contractors hand