`The Oakland we knew is not going to remain`: Massive building boom tears through city
(WorldNews Business)

OAKLAND, Calif. - Sleek new condos rise up amid the graffiti-covered warehouses, artist`s studios and homeless encampments of West Oakland. Construction cranes dot the downtown skyline, and scaffolding-shrouded towers march down Broadway into Temescal. An extraordinary residential building boom is shaking up Oakland, part of a transformation sweeping the Bay Area as market forces and political initiative combine to address the region`s desperate housing crisis. `The city is being radically reconfigured - the whole Bay Area is,` said urban geography expert and UC Berkeley professor emeritus Richard Walker. `The Oakland we knew is not going to remain.` The change is particularly stark in...