The Standard Staff

Bay City News

San Jose, the Bay Area’s largest city, continues to battle homelessness, high housing costs, commercial vacancies and crime.

A dinner party to discuss the fate of Downtown San Francisco led to an idea that City Hall officials are now considering.

Bay Area creatives believe that Downtown’s woes could pave the way for an artistic and economic renaissance.

As the shift to work-from-home hollows out the city center, plumbers, carpenters and other construction workers have been left unemployed.

The ordinance aims to expedite housing and other new uses for office space.
