Westside Cities Must Address Affordability Crisis I’m going to Culver City (just outside Los Angeles) on June 19 to talk about my book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, and how the city must
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Next Steps for Housing Advocates In the wake of SB50’s shelving, housing advocates who put so much time into the CASA Compact process and SB50 cannot walk away. That would mean  accepting the untenable housing status quo. So what are
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Atkins Shelving of SB50 Reflects Pattern of Housing Inaction Last week’s shelving of SB50, the More HOMES Act, reminds us why California has the nation’s worst homelessness and housing affordability crisis. And that the housing emergency has intensified while  California
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Legislators Backroom Deal Kills New Housing Today’s  shelving of California’s SB50 came as a shock to me and seemingly everyone following the bill. Yesterday, the day before the Senate Appropriation Committee’s hearing, there were reports that the bill could be
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Blaming Infill Housing for Traffic I did a book event in Fremont for Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America on Saturday and it was quite illuminating. Sponsored by the Greenbelt Alliance and League of
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Fremont, Newark, Union City Struggle With Affordability When we talk about the “Bay Area housing crisis,” Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco and other cities come to mind. Rising unaffordability in the East Bay cities of Fremont, Newark and Union City gets
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Book Festival Excludes Bay Area’s Top Problem Rising housing costs have long afflicted the Bay Area. In a March 2019 Bay Area News Group poll,  7 in 10 respondents cited “the high cost of housing and living, traffic congestion and
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Passage of SB50 is Key to Governor’s First Year Goals California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged during his 2018 campaign to build 3,500,000 new homes in the state. He modified this post-election to say he would quadruple housing construction by adding
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