The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits issued statewide in '08 for houses and apartments represents a 42 percent drop from the year before and a 69 percent slide from 2004. Locally, however, the statistics aren't quite so bad -- largely becau
Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors
Retrofitting the Bay Bridge will take five years, hundreds of workers, a million bolts, and 19 million pounds of iron. The hardest part? Making sure no one notices.
Don FeriaA woman is led away by police during a May raid on NBC General Contractors' Oakland offices​On Wednesday, we wrote about the beleaguered NBC General Contractors, a company facing 40 felony counts in Alameda County for allegedly ripping off its vulnerable, Chinese immigrant workers and the state of California in a massive fraud scheme. An excellent cover story in the East Bay Express documented how owner Monica Ung purportedly forced her underpaid workers into six-day weeks of 12-hour
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