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  • ULI Study Examines the Costs of Housing,Transportation

    SAN FRANCISCO—When buying a new home, imagine if you could look at a sticker and see how much it would cost to commute from that house to your job

  • News

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  • Old Highway Leads to New Housing

    SAN FRANCISCO—When the old Central Freeway was demolished several years ago after being battered by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it created a unique opportunity to build something new.

  • Historic Church Gets Second Chance

    SAN FRANCISCO—A historic church that has been part of the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for 93 years has been given back its grandeur, if not its original use.

  • Railton Serves San Francisco's Neediest

    SAN FRANCISCO—Ian Campbell has a place to call his own at Railton Place, a big deal for a man who lived in Golden Gate Park for 17 years. “I'm flabbergasted,†he says. “This place is gorgeous.â€

  • The Natural

    The defining moment of Jennifer Daughtrey Hicks' career in affordable housing happened one summer when she lived on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco.

  • Transit-Oriented Projects Roll On

    San Francisco—If you see an AvalonBay Communities, Inc., project under construction in the Bay Area, you can bet there’s a train station nearby.

  • Add ”˜Community' to YourNext Development

    San Francisco—The business of community development is booming.

  • From Freeway to Seniors Housing

    SAN FRANCISCO - Parkview Terraces sits like a glass jewel on an unlikely corner of the city. One of San Francisco’s newest affordable housing developments, it is built on land that used to be filled by a longtime freeway on-ramp.

  • Church Revival: Building Remade as Seniors Housing

    SAN FRANCISCO - Buena Vista Terrace accomplishes two important goals—preserving a historic church building and creating 40 affordable apartments for seniors in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets.