Silicon Valley billionaires want to build a new city in rural California, but locals are skeptical of the project: 'Their secrecy has caused a lot of problems'

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Image shows the rural community of Rio Vista, California. It features a brown, wooden farmhouse, long grass and some parked RVs.
Rio Vista, California is a rural area, but billionaires want to utilize the land to erect a new city.

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Hollywood walkouts have wiped $5 billion from California's economy, exceeding analysts' estimates

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Hollywood writers strike

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A millennial who bought his first rental home at 23 explains the one costly mistake first-time homebuyers should avoid

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This is how the billionaires planning a new city near San Francisco imagine their utopia could look

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A mock-up illustration shared onCalifornia Forever's website that shows people cycling on a road near houses and trees
Cycling and green space feature in plans for the new community.

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A mayor told the investors who want to build a new city in her backyard to 'take their billions of dollars and go back down to Silicon Valley'

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Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County.

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Cost of living in 10 of California's major cities, ranked cheapest to most expensive

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A $1.7 million prefab tiny home community was designed to help solve homelessness in an expensive Southern California city. A year later, half of its residents have found homes.

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Inside a tiny home at DignityMoves' Santa Barbara location
Of the 66 people who have stayed at DignityMoves' Santa Barbara prefab tiny home community, 36 have gone on to find permanent housing.

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Silicon Valley Elites Show Off Renderings of Exclusive New City They Want to Build in the Bay Area

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You don’t have to stray too far into science fiction or comic book tales to find examples of megalomaniacal tech businessmen creating their own “utopian” metropolises, before—inevitably—everything goes to hell. Now several titans of Silicon Valley are hoping they can get their way with their own dream city that,…

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A company that counts billionaires Marc Andreessen and Laurene Powell Jobs as investors says it's bought 50,000 acres of land to build a new 'walkable' city in northern California. Here's everything we know about the plans.

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California Forever counts Marc Andreessen and Laurene Powell Jobs among its investors.

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Forget snowbirds: 'Sweat birds' flee the heat of Texas and Arizona to spend summer in cooler northern climates

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Cindy Woudenberg lives most of her year in Arizona and spends the hotter months in Michigan.

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