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A high-profile proposal to build 44 homes on the parking lot of the Claremont Hotel and Spa appears dead after a seven-year battle.

Oakland's blueprint for bringing more affordable housing to the city has been rejected by the state and sent back for revisions.

The battle over SB9, a new California law that would add density to single-family...

20 May 2021 Piedmont, California, is a small suburb with a population of 10,667 surrounded by the gritty city of Oakland, population 425,097. Piedmont is almost exclusively zoned for single family dwellings and is home to prosperous businesses.  Activists and politicians are trying to end that distinction by forcing Piedmont to build “affordable housing” and increase density by allowing multi-family units. One activist put it this way: “This is really what people have been pushing for �...

Piedmont residents wrestle with how to add more housing to exclusive enclave FacebookTwitterEmail The Piedmont Racial Equity Campaign suggests that housing could be built in Piedmont Park as the city struggles to find land for development.Paul Kuroda/Special to The Chronicle Piedmont and Oakland are neighbors, but the cities are very different demographically — and in how they approach building housing. With new, much higher housing goals set by the state, small, wealthy Bay Area enclaves lik...