Published Aug. 24, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a tale as old as time. Legislators pass a law to make it easier to build homes, but nothing gets built because of factors beyond their control.<\/p>\n
These factors are mostly financial \u2014 high interest rates, material costs, and labor expenses \u2014 making developers and investors hesitant to build, since they\u2019re not sure they\u2019ll make their money back. But one factor that can change this is rent. And rents are skyrocketing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Developers predict that continued rent increases will trigger a building boom within two years, and they\u2019re planning to get in on the action.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you can get in and start construction now, you can build your building for today\u2019s costs and get tomorrow\u2019s rents,\u201d said Erik Hayden, CEO of San Jose-based development company Urban Catalyst. \u201cThat\u2019s always a huge win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 24, 2026at6:00am It\u2019s a tale as old as time. Legislators pass a law to make it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1337,2655,388,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-442674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-housing-development","tag-housing-market","tag-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}