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- Sep 21, 2026
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California voters are about to decide on $36 billion in housing bonds—here is the breakdown (opens the original)
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California voters will decide in November whether to authorize two multibillion-dollar housing bonds — one to help fund new affordable homes and another to help buyers afford down payments on newly constructed properties. One measure, Proposition 1, would let the state borrow $11.25 billion for a variety of housing efforts, including financing low-income apartments and providing low-interest home loans to veterans and first-time homebuyers. The other, Proposition 37, would allow a state agency t
The NFL brought an anti-trafficking campaign to the Bay Area. Then the 49ers owner was caught in a sex-buying sting (opens the original)
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Ahead of Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara this February, local officials touted a partnership with the NFL to provide $200,000 for services for sex trafficking victims as cities across the Bay Area anticipated thousands of football fans pouring into the region for the Big Game. Seven months later, 49ers principal owner and CEO Jed York was arrested in a prostitution sting near his home in Ohio. As the NFL continues to consider discipline for York, his arrest is testing the league’s public commitment
They earn $300,000 and pay $1,800 in rent in the Bay Area. Why they can stay in affordable housing (opens the original)
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At Sunset Square Apartments, a 96-unit affordable housing complex in East San Jose, roughly a quarter of households earn above the site’s income limits. Two bring in over $300,000 a year, while each has paid around $1,800 a month for a one-bedroom unit — almost $1,000 below the city’s median rent for such apartments. The property, supported by a mix of taxpayer subsidies that helped finance its construction, is not an isolated case. A San Jose auditor’s report from June found that in a sample of
Exclusive: 49ers sought Palo Alto police report before disclosing Shanahan crash, records show (opens the original)
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During the 11 days between a car crash that seriously injured San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and the team’s announcement of the wreck, team officials repeatedly contacted Palo Alto police and said they wanted to review the collision report before releasing information to the media, records obtained by the Bay Area News Group show. The correspondence, obtained through a public records request, sheds new light on the handling of the July 14 crash in downtown Palo Alto, amid swirling quest
Body cam footage shows 49ers owner Jed York’s arrest in Ohio (opens the original)
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Police body-cam footage shows officers handcuffing and detaining a stunned San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York at an Ohio mobile home park last weekend, where authorities said he intended to solicit a sex worker. York pleaded no contest Monday to reduced charges for which he served a day in jail, and the NFL is reviewing the incident for possible punishment, commissioner Roger Goodell said. Officers arrested York, who was wearing his wedding ring and a gray Yankees T-shirt and basketball shorts,
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