VALLEJO, Calif. — California is in the middle of an affordable-housing crisis that cities across the state are struggling to solve. Rick Holliday, a longtime Bay Area real estate developer, thinks one ...

Will these modular apartment buildings help the Bay Area handle its housing crisis? Several affordable projects in the area are assembling apartments off-site and then simply locking them into place.

Scores of Solano County construction workers this year have been building hundreds of homes for projects all over California. And next year, they’ll likely turn out even more without leaving the same ...