Calif. officials announce plan to house 75% of Bay Area’s homeless population by 2024
By Jana Kadah, SFGate, April 14, 2021. The regional plan has input and organizing from the Governor’s Office, local governments, and philanthropic partners.
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Millbrae blocks housing deal that would create hundreds of apartments near SFO
By J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, 2021. The California Department of Housing and Community Development warned that Millbrae’s zoning change violated state law.
San Francisco Bay: Protection from costly disasters is being thrown away, scientists say
By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, April 13, 2021. Experts say that recovering dredged sediment costs less than seawalls and brings more benefits.
Stocky modular buildings are popping up in East Bay – developers share their experience
By John King, San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2021. Sometimes the potential savings meet expectations; often, they don’t.
Google-backed affordable home site in downtown San Jose could sprout near Shark Tank
By George Avalos, San Jose Mercury News, April 7, 2021. Google intends to donate the land to the city for the development of affordable homes.
HUD report – new approach for estimating costs of homeless encampment responses
From HUD User, April 6, 2021. San Jose’s experience, along with three other U.S. cities, informed a framework that can be applied to many kinds of communities.
The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box – with comment from James Castañeda, AICP
By Clayton Ashley, Polygon, April 1, 2021. The game was inspired by a book suggesting that social policies meant to help cities are in fact detrimental to their success.
New urban village development threatens to displace San Jose’s 60-year-old Berryessa flea market
By Jennifer Wadsworth, San Jose Spotlight, March 31, 2021. Berryessa flea market business owners and their representatives expect the city or some other public entity to help prevent displacement and gentrification.
President Biden’s infrastructure spending plan could benefit big Bay Area transit projects
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2021. The plan is expected to benefit California’s transit agencies and high-speed rail project.
New research: urban and transport planning linked to 2,000 premature deaths per year in Barcelona and Madrid
From Barcelona Institute for Global Health, March 30, 2021. This study is the first to estimate premature mortality impacts and the distribution by socioeconomic status of multiple environmental exposures related to urban planning and transport in the two cities.