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New data released by ABAG and MTC as part of the agencies' Vital Signs performance-monitoring initiative show the nine-county Bay Area's housing stock increased by only 14,900 new units -- the vast majority of which are apartments or condominiums -- in 2017. The number of newly-built housing units...

New Wildfire White Paper developed by the ABAG and MTC Resilience Program explores the strategies communities currently use to mitigate wildfire risk. Available at http://resilience.abag.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fire-Study-FINAL.pdf, the paper characterizes wildfire hazard in the region, assesses...

Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) since 2001 and of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) since July 2017, today notified the Commission's Executive Committee that he will retire from both positions on February 28, 2019.

A committee of...