A lawsuit by a group of tenants echoes some of the same privacy concerns property owners raised about the city’s rent database.

San Jose expects to have 80 tiny cabins built by next summer to house homeless people until they find a long-term place to stay.

San Jose is trying to secure federal grants to replace its 58-year-old aircraft rescue and firefighting facility, which has fallen into disrepair.

Paper and plastics tossed by U.S. consumers into their blue bins have been piling up ever since China tightened import restrictions.

San Jose leaders will consider key changes to the city’s rent laws, including some that empower landlords and others that favor tenants.

San Jose wants to wrest control of its subsidized rent programs from the Santa Clara County Housing Authority.

San Jose city leaders again rejected a proposal to link rent hikes to inflation, which advocates hoped would offer relief to cash-strapped tenants.

On Tuesday, the San Jose City Council will decide whether to walk back a gift limit increase by keeping the $50 cap set in 2004.

The decision came after four hours of heated testimony marked by jeers from landlords who called city officials thieves and communists.

Two weeks after voting to outlaw no-cause evictions for all tenants, San Jose’s City Council will decide when to enact the new rule.

Nearly half of of San Jose’s elected leaders want to prevent landlords from discriminating against recipients of housing subsidies.

San Jose’s City Council on Tuesday will hold a contentious debate on new ways to protect tenants and hold landlords accountable.

Complaints of price-gouging contractors and negligent landlords have prompted the city to consider taking legal action on behalf of residents.

City leaders will consider whether to impose a temporary freeze on rent hikes or enact its new 5 percent annual rent cap sooner than planned.

San Jose's City Council will decide this week whether to cut allowable annual rent increases for one-third of the city’s apartments.

San Jose is poised to spend the next six months converting the shuttered Plaza Hotel into a temporary shelter for homeless people.