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The Carrera Sanchez family: top left are pictured Ambrocio Carrera and his wife Norma Sanchez, along with their kids Jonatan, 15, bottom left, Luis, 7, and Orlando, 13, in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. They are photographed outside their home, which the Oakland Community Land Trust recently bought to prevent the former landlord from doubling the rent, or selling it to another owner. Community land trusts are becoming increasingly popular in the Bay Area as a way to preserve affordable housing and give tenants an opportunity to build equity in their homes. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Luis, 7, left, and his parents Ambrocio Carrera and Norma Sanchez sit in the living room of their home in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, July 7, 2018. The Oakland Community Land Trust recently bought the house to prevent the former landlord from doubling the rent, or selling it to another owner. Community land trusts are becoming increasingly popular in the Bay Area as a way to preserve … [Read more...] about A home you can afford: How land trusts are changing Bay Area home ownership

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums poses for a portrait in the rotunda at City Hall in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2009. This city of 400,000 unrolling from the shores of the San Francisco Bay is a study in contrasts, charming neighborhoods and a prosperous professional class juxtaposed with chronic violence and pockets of poverty. Lately, the more troubled side of the city has been on display. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) A woman walks by a black wreath placed inside the atrium at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Monday, July 30, 2018. Dellums, a former Democratic congressman and mayor of Oakland, who the building is named after, died of cancer on Monday at his home in Washington, D.C. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds City hopes for more aggressive action in 2008 from iconic mayor Ron Dellums(D. Ross Cameron/The Oakland Tribune) A flag flies at a half-staff outside of the Ronald V. Dellums … [Read more...] about Bay Area political icon Ron Dellums dies at 82

By Seung Lee | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: July 30, 2018 at 6:03 pm | UPDATED: July 30, 2018 at 6:13 pm It may not have been the final curtain call for MoviePass on Monday, but listings for many Bay Area theaters in its subscription-based movie-going app went dark for hours Monday afternoon before they were restored as the company and its owner faced deep financial woes. Subscribers took to social media on Monday afternoon to complain that MoviePass showed no movie listings in its local theaters in and around the Bay Area. The MoviePass mobile app showed no listings Monday afternoon for AMC Mercado 20, CineArts at Santana Row in San Jose and AMC Eastridge 15 in East San Jose — despite all three theaters operating and screening multiple movies on Monday, according to their websites. By nearly 6 p.m., the listings had returned to the MoviePass app for those and other Bay Area theaters. MoviePass did show listings Monday afternoon, however, for four … [Read more...] about MoviePass app listings for many Bay Area theaters went dark for awhile on Monday

WeWork Shared spaces in a San Mateo office building leased to WeWork on Concar Drive, in a visualization. WeWork has extended a robust expansion in the Bay Area by leasing a four-story office building in San Mateo where several hundred people could work. WeWork The interior of a San Mateo office building that WeWork has leased, in a visualization. WeWork has extended a robust expansion in the Bay Area by leasing a four-story office building in San Mateo where several hundred people could work. Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Google Images Entry area of an office building at 400 Concar Drive in San Mateo. WeWork has extended a robust expansion in the Bay Area by leasing a four-story office building in San Mateo where several hundred people could work. WeWork Spaces inside a San Mateo office building leased to WeWork, in a visualization. WeWork has extended a robust expansion in the Bay Area by leasing a four-story office building in San Mateo where several … [Read more...] about WeWork leases first San Mateo location, swiftly expanding in the Bay Area

By Joan Morris | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: July 30, 2018 at 4:18 pm | UPDATED: July 30, 2018 at 5:04 pm More than 100 adoptable cats and dogs threatened by the Carr Fire in Shasta County are headed to the Bay Area, where they’ll be looking for new homes. On Friday, ARF brought 24 cats and 14 dogs from the Haven Humane Society shelter in Anderson, a city 10 miles south of Redding, to clear space for the scores of pets already misplaced by the fire and the more that will come. Elena Bicker, executive director of ARF, said the crew was encouraged to leave as the fire was only two miles from Haven’s shelter. It moved even closer overnight, forcing Saturday’s evacuation of Haven’s Eastside Road shelter. Workers and volunteers moved about 500 animals — many refugees from the fire — to temporary quarters in three empty storefronts at the Shasta Gateway outlet mall in Anderson. ARF’s disaster relief team … [Read more...] about Pets from Carr Fire-threatened shelter going up for adoption in Bay Area