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.
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?
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.
By Noel W. Sterett, July 30, 2021. For 20 years, RLUIPA has helped thousands of religious groups overcome zoning barriers. But it remains a relatively unknown and under-enforced statute, and many religious groups don’t know that a strong federal civil rights law is available to them.
May 2010. Northern Section Director Darcy Kremin, AICP, presents Donald Bradley, AICP, with a surprise Certificate of Excellence for his leadership in conducting Northern Section’s AICP Exam preparation workshops since 1990. His distinguished career spans more than 60 years and has taken him around the world on large-scale and complex planning projects. Interview by Catarina Kidd, AICP.
