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its bold new announcement of a cross government partnership, the “Clean Energy Savings for All Americans Initiative,” which includes an expansion of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs. This administrative action comes after Reps. Huffman and Thompson urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to enable veterans to receive VA-secured home loans to take advantage of PACE programs.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its finalmortgage servicing rule today, with stronger protections to prevent unnecessary foreclosures on successors-in-interest, more commonly known as “widow foreclosures.”

Oak Grove Apartments Opens in Hitachi Master-planned Community SAN JOSE, Calif. - (RealEstateRama) -- ROEM Corporation announced today the opening of...

The California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, and the New Buildings Institute (NBI) today announced that California continues the march toward its zero net energy (ZNE) goals, with 108 new and renovated commercial buildings that have been either verified as generating as much energy as they consume or are working toward that target.

City’s Two-Year Budget Invests in Residents to Ensure San Francisco Remains a Safe, Resilient City with Additional Services to Address Homelessness, Quality of Life, Police Reforms, Violence Prevention & Public Safety While Preserving High Level of City Services

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today signed the City’s two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Years 2016-17 and 2017-18. To deliver this two-year consensus budget proposal, Mayor Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors and heard directly from residents and community leaders throughout the City, by meeting with residents, nonprofit organizations, City Commissioners, labor, business owners, and advocates to discuss priorities and address concerns including homelessness, quality of life, police reform, violence prevention and public safety.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced that the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded four California projects with grants from its Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program.

Homelessness among children has doubled since the recession. In the 2013-2014 school year, more than 1.36 million school-age children were homeless, up from nearly 680,000 in the 2006-2007 school year

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is providing San Francisco $250,000 in funding to increase the deployment of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and hydrogen infrastructure in the Bay Area

The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) this month launched the C.A.R. Innovators Workshop, seeking to drive further innovation of products, services, and solutions that will create efficiencies, improve productivity, and help REALTORS®, brokerages, and other real estate professionals to do their jobs and serve their clients better, smarter, and more efficiently

The California State Historical Resources Commission is scheduled to consider 10 nominations for federal historic designation and one nomination for state historic designation.

In another critical step in the City’s effort to combat homelessness, Mayor Eric Garcetti invited affordable housing developers to submit proposals to develop City-owned properties for homeless residents

Led by the San Francisco Bay Area, California pending home sales continued their upward momentum in June to post three straight months of annual increases, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today

The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new policy that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will begin insuring mortgages on certain properties with Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans.

In a critical breakthrough more than three years in the making, Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52) announced today that theDepartment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is considering four options to replace the Continuum of Care formula that determines how federal homelessness funding is allocated. A public comment period opening today and lasting 60 days will give service organizations, housing providers, and local leaders the opportunity to weigh in on the potential replacements for the existing, outdated formula that has severely disadvantaged cities like San Diego in their work to end homelessness.

Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer was joined today by City Councilmember Todd Gloria and San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) CEO Richard C. Gentry to encourage homeless veterans to attend this weekend’s “Stand Down” event and sign up for the “Housing Our Heroes” campaign – a call to action to help 1,000 homeless veterans transition off the streets.

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), senior member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, questioned public sector Homeland Security experts during a Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies hearing, “Value of DHS’ Vulnerability Assessments in Protecting our Nation’s Critical Infrastructure.”