Showing more than 200 shovel-ready affordable housing projects in the Bay Area that haven't even started yet.

We're talking about hundreds of empty lots meant to provide affordable housing to thousands of Bay Area people being used for nothing.

Thousands of people are living on the streets with nowhere to go. There has been a

77% increase in people who are experiencing homelessness for long periods of time over the last four years.

The latest numbers from our federal government estimates nearly 600,000 individuals

experience homelessness in the U.S. on any given night.

A new kind of housing is set to open.

It's aiming to be just a small part of a bigger solution to the homeless crisis.

I think that we want to be left alone, but if their services are available and they are serious,

then yeah, we want to get off the street. Of course we do.

If you're going to pick a place to have low to medium income housing, are you going to put next to the ocean or are you going to put it inland?

Couldn't you argue that people who can afford that kind of housing should also be able to have

a water view? Well everybody I would have loved when I was 20 years old to have a water

view but as many people around here have worked their way up to being able to afford something like that.

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