Is an AI-fueled housing boom — or displacement crisis — about to hit Oakland?

With rents skyrocketing in San Francisco, some analysts say it’s a matter of time before the East Bay sees a “spillover” effect. Others are less sure.

## Planning Commission meetings keep getting canceled in Oakland

But that might be a good thing for housing.

## Rockridge Trader Joe’s could be replaced by 415-unit senior housing towers

One influential community group is urging the developer to keep the Trader Joe's as part of the project.

$1M fine for a landowner who chopped trees? Oakland officials can’t decide

A tense meeting failed to resolve the question of whether the Claremont Avenue property owners should face steep consequences for cutting down 38 trees, mostly oaks.