“For a mere $42,000, Navarro allegedly installed a kitchenette, shower, plumbing and security cameras, prosecutors said.”
A former Caltrain deputy director and a contractor are charged with turning offices in the Burlingame and Millbrae stations into apartments on public money. They kept every invoice under $3,000 so nobody upstairs had to sign off. The Millbrae unit cost $8,000. The Bay Area routinely spends north of $900,000 on one affordable unit, and the cheapest housing builders in the region are facing felony charges.