By Rachel Ramirez, CNN, March 3, 2022. If the nation’s second largest reservoir passes the emergency drought threshold, it would threaten water supplies and cut hydropower to several states.
Lake Powell is about to drop below a critical level never reached before Read More »
By Benjamin Schneider, San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 2022. The study found that parking and roadways make up 20 percent of land in incorporated areas of the Bay Area.
New research: The ‘hidden toll’ of having more parking spaces than people Read More »
By Romy Varghese, Bloomberg CityLab, March 3, 2022. San Francisco’s downtown recovery is among the slowest nationally, but the state’s property-tax system cushions the city’s finances.
San Francisco businesses confront many office workers never returning Read More »
Mercatus Center scholar Emily Hamilton argues SB9 will have far more impact if local leaders cooperate with the spirit of the law by relaxing some of the rules that make duplexes less attractive to build.
To fix its housing crisis, California must unleash the duplex Read More »
Pew Research Center, March 9, 2022. College graduates are more likely than those with less education to say they now earn more and have more opportunities for advancement, compared with their last job.
By Laura Kiesel, Salon, February 26, 2022. Parks and greenways, as well as other green features linked with density plans, may have unintended consequences.
By Jerusalem Demsas, Vox, February 24, 2022. At the heart of America is a packed bag. But what happens when leaving is no longer an option?
Americans used to move a lot; now they don’t. It could be causing a social crisis Read More »
By Nami Sumida, San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 2022. The city also found that each department used different boundaries when reporting neighborhood-level metrics, which made it impossible to combine data across departments.
Not even San Francisco city departments can agree on neighborhood boundaries Read More »
SPUR has made the majority of its programming free to the public. Here is their calendar for the balance of March 2022, and April.
Free SPUR events for March and April Read More »
By Patricia Voltolini, Melissa Kim, David M. Greenberg, Julia Duranti-Martinez, and Michelle Harati in Next City, 11 min. When it comes to helping small businesses find and develop commercial space in which they can succeed and thrive, affordability, accessibility, and supporting collaboration are key.
Strategies to promote affordable commercial space in cities Read More »
