By Peter Hegarty, East Bay Times, July 21, 2021. Alameda is still exploring how to implement new permanent housing for the area’s unhoused people.
Alameda may provide tiny cabins, motel rooms, for homeless residents Read More »
By Ted Goldberg, KQED, July 21, 2021. Air district staff said the rule change will save lives and millions of dollars in health costs.
Bay Area refineries must dramatically cut pollution, Air District says in historic vote Read More »
By John King, San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2021. Sonoma County’s Highway 37 provides a dramatic example of flooding vulnerabilities in the Bay Area’s highway system.
Visual report: How sea level rise threatens the Bay Area’s roads Read More »
By Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2021. A pair of University of Pennsylvania researchers quantified increased land costs due to “restrictive zoning” in SF and other US cities.
This is how much single-family zoning is costing San Franciscans Read More »
By Carly Graf, San Francisco Examiner, July 7, 2021. Scoot is out. Two scooter companies remain as options to cover transit service gaps left by the pandemic.
SF clashes with scooter company over permit violations: City wins Read More »
By Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2021. Higher-earning migrants also are creating new jobs for working-class locals.
Wealth, class, and remote work reshape California’s boomtowns Read More »
By Steve Matarazzo, August 1, 2021. Rely on your personal, educational, and professional qualities to advance your career — and fulfill your life.
You are the Ace in the Hole; don’t count on anyone else Read More »
By Julie Strupp, July 27, 2021. Oregon and California are renting and purchasing hotels to house the homeless — residents who have lost their homes to wildfire, and unhoused people.
States buying hotels for short- and long-term housing for wildfire survivors Read More »
By David Driskell, with Ian Carlton, Tyler Bump, and Michelle Anderson, August 11, 2021. SB9 and other initiatives propose changes to single-family zoning to create more “missing middle” housing, and in the process, more diverse housing and greater affordability. But economic analyses of the potential market response show some of these changes won’t result in much on-the-ground change. Why is that? What’s a planner to do?
Why zoning for Middle Housing doesn’t make it so Read More »
By Tom Pace, Community Development Director, Sacramento, July 16, 2021. Sacramento is not eliminating single-family housing; it is increasing housing opportunities in the city’s most desirable neighborhoods. But it is eliminating most, if not all, of the exclusive aspects of single-family zoning.
“Eliminating” single-family zoning? Read More »
