The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Resources for Community Development (RCD) have released a new study of the role of affordable housing in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) areas. Over the past decade, TOD has become an important strategy for providing affordable housing while also...
ABAG's Resilience Program announces two new grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in support of mitigation planning to reduce the impacts of current and future natural hazards, and recovery planning to rebuild quickly after a disaster. As a...
Designed to help readers to imagine what our diverse communities have in common: San Francisco Bay Area -- People, Places, and Prosperity will be released at September’s Executive Board meeting.
The people that live and work in the Bay Area-are connected by complex webs of housing markets, job...
Sonoma County's GO LOCAL Cooperative is a network of local businesses, residents, and nonprofits that support local sustainable businesses. Through its innovative and exclusive rewards program, card holders earn bucks and receive rebates on everyday purchases, goods, and services from multiple local...
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) was selected as the Bay Area regional partner for CivicSpark, a Governor's Initiative AmeriCorps program administered by the Local Government Commission. "The initiative is a win-win designed to generate jobs for recent college graduates, and the...
The Association of Bay Area Governments, and its Resilience Program, are here to provide support to the cities, towns and counties of the San Francisco Bay Area with disaster preparedness. Fortunately, disaster recovery support was not needed this morning.
The 6:49 a.m. magnitude 4.0 earthquake...
The Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has developed the Local Government PACE Portal, a "one-stop shop" for local governments interested in allowing property owners to take advantage of PACE financing for energy...
On Friday, July 24, 2015, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) hosted a forum in Oakland to discuss and present the preliminary findings of its first comprehensive report on "Bay Area Services to Unaccompanied Immigrant Children."
69 different organizations ranging from small non-profits...
Local transportation and planning officials are applauding yesterday's action by California's Strategic Growth Council to award over $47 million in state Cap-and-Trade funds to 11 affordable, transit-oriented housing and mixed-use projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area grants are part...
The public comments made as part of the recent Plan Bay Area workshops are available. Additional comments can be added to the on-going dialog.
