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Births Plummet in San Francisco Bay Area

A new study suggests that the birth rate is collapsing in the San Francisco Bay Area, partly due to high housing prices, as women are delaying childbirth until they can afford living space in which to raise children.

Pregnant San Francisco (Chris Michaels / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

Ben Carson Tours Homeless Shelter in Los Angeles

Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), toured a homeless women’s center on Los Angeles’s infamous Skid Row Tuesday as part of a fact-finding mission aimed at tackling homelessness and providing job training for inner-city communities throughout the United States.

MIAMI, FL - APRIL 12: U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson visits the

ACORN Reborn: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

On Friday, the Los Angeles County Superior Court heard a case brought by real estate mogul Greg Geiser against a couple whom he evicted — and who retaliated by staging a protest in front of his own house with the help of a group called the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).

ACCE (Facebook)

Exclusive — Congress Likely To Defund Obama’s Housing Rules

The administration’s housing regulation, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), gives the federal government the power to decide the racial composition of communities in America. The regulation allows for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to withhold money from cities and municipalities that fail to address racial disparities in their communities. Congress is likely to defund Obama’s housing rules in the forthcoming omnibus spending bill.

dome of the US Capitol is seen in Washington on January 4, 2011, one day before before the

Blacks Left out of Liberal San Francisco’s Prosperity

San Francisco is enjoying the benefits of a new tech boom, but black residents are left behind–or leaving.
That’s the story told by new data on incomes, which show that white, Asian and Latino residents saw increases in 2014, but blacks saw their incomes fall by nearly 5 percent,

New Study Names San Francisco As Most Expensive To Buy A Home

Hot Silicon Valley Property Market: Seattle

Prices for homes in the Bay Area have increased to the point where hi-tech workers are fleeing to the Pacific Northwest to find affordable housing, according to the real estate site Redfin. The median home price in the Bay Area has surpassed $1 million, and Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told the San Francisco Chronicle that one-quarter of Bay Area searchers are checking areas elsewhere–a steep hike from the one-seventh of searchers looking elsewhere in 2011.

Seattle housing (Christopher Hall / Getty)

Critics: San Francisco’s Poor Pay for Their Own Eviction by Tech Cronies

With San Francisco offering massive tax incentives to redevelop 77 dilapidated warehouse buildings into a “Twitter Town” for the “digerati” venture capital crowd, the adjacent Mission District community is now in turmoil, as the city’s poor are being booted to make room for new buildings and Airbnb vacation rental conversions.

Twitter HQ (Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart News)