BIA SAN DIEGO NEWS

BIA Cares Hits Bullseye with Trap Shoot By Nancy Diamond BIA Cares held its 5th Annual Trap Shoot Fundraiser, August 16th at the Lemon Grove Rod and Gun Club in [...]

Candidates Show Their Fundraising Hands in Campaign 2020 By Matt Adams The next Primary Election may be seven months away, but candidates have been in fundraising mode since January and now their efforts have [...]

Wells Fargo Plays Key Role in Advancing Homeownership The dream of owning a home shines bright today. For 70% of Americans, it’s a key symbol of success, as good as having a career. That’s [...]

Incentives Work When There is Leadership and Vision By John LaRaia, H.G. Fenton Company, BIA Board Member Can you imagine making a product – any product – cheaper and more available by artificially layering [...]

BIA Cares Backpack Give-a-way A Big Success L to R: Mark Hartley, Dave Norvell, Mayor Rebecca Jones, Sue Dowd, Jessica Nishiura (event chair), daughter Rai and Brian Woods of National Core. By Nancy [...]

The Competition for Affordable Housing Property By John LaRaia, H.G. Fenton Company, BIA Board Member A few weeks ago, my former colleague, Bob Cummings, eloquently described the current economic climate in which “residential use [...]

Council Votes to Increase Inculsionary Housing Requirement By Matt Adams The San Diego City Council voted to increase its Inclusionary Housing Mandate and require all new home developments to set aside 10% of their [...]

Council Approves Program to Stimulate Middle Income Housing By Matt Adams The San Diego City Council voted to create incentives it hopes will lead to more moderate income housing production. The Moderate Income Housing [...]

Residential Home Development – The Competing Uses for Available Land By Bob Cummings, Chelsea Investment Corp. BIA Board of Directors In my 27 years of BIA involvement, I have seen the forces working against [...]

So… What’s a YIMBY? By Rita Mahoney, ColRich, BIA Board of Directors When Mayor Kevin Faulconer declared himself to be California’s first YIMBY mayor in his January 2019 State of the City speech, there [...]

Mission Valley Community Plan Update Clears Key Committee By Matt Adams The San Diego Land Use and Housing Committee voted to approve the proposed update to the Mission Valley Community Plan. The late afternoon vote [...]

Help BIA Train Future Construction Trades By Mike McSweeney BIA was instrumental in getting two North County High Schools to adopt the BITA curriculum for the next school year. "BITA" stands for Building Industry Technical Academy. [...]