Momentum is building for local churches turning their own properties into affordable-housing developments. FOX Channel 2 came out with the latest report detailing this growing trend in the Bay Area. The story highlights the current development project by Glad Tidings Church of …
Churches have been following the command to “love your neighbor” for two millennia, but that effort has taken on a new wrinkle in the Bay Area in recent years. Soaring housing prices in a gentrifying region has meant that many Bay Area …
There has been a lot of talk the past few months about Opportunity Zones. Below is more information on Opportunity Zones and how you can take advantage of its benefits. What are Opportunity Zones? The U.S. Investing in Opportunities Act of 2017 …
Housing Veteran Blake Peters Joins DCG Strategies Blake Peters, partner in New Cities Investment Partners, LLC, Vice President of Bay Area Property Developers, LLC, and President of Miramonte Development, Inc., joined DCG Strategies, Inc. this month as a Senior Project Manager in Real …
Churches understand what it means to serve. To sacrifice. They care for their congregants and their communities without fanfare or reward. Until they can’t anymore. Declining church attendance is already more the rule than the exception. Add on a housing crisis, and …
School districts might soon have an easier time building workforce housing for teachers under a new measure introduced in the California State Assembly. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1648, aims to shorten the delays teacher housing projects can face during the environmental review …
Churches are built on relationships. But what does a church do when it’s time to renegotiate a lease with a decades-old building tenant? New Bridges Presbyterian Church in Hayward, California, had old leases that were holding it back. The leadership learned it …
A new study shows that California’s housing crisis is indeed getting worse. 53% of Californians say they are considering moving out of state because of the high cost of living, up 4% from last year. The number is even higher for millennials; …
The one-room schoolhouse was solid and wonderful, but it was the opposite of the flexible grid style schools needed for the future. Demographics often mimic a slow tide, coming in gradually and making incremental and predictable changes. Eventually, everything is different and …
