Media Ignores Driving Force Behind Rising Housing Costs Homeowners opposing new multi-unit housing drive urban gentrification. As I detail in Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, from San Francisco’s Bernal Heights, Noe Valley, Alamo
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New guide will help students cut costs on textbooks, computers and more WASHINGTON — College is expensive, requiring many students to take out significant loans to afford an education. On top of that, students have to deal with the additional

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How Blue Cities Undermine Democracy Today is Election Day in Seattle. Wait, you’re wondering why a progressive city elects Council members during summer vacation? A time when students are gone? A time that disproportionately empowers older white homeowners with a
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This piece first appeared in StreetsblogUSA Experts long have bemoaned the gender gap in cycling: Three in four bike trips in the United States are made by men. It also has been known for some time, too, that women’s heightened
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Trump Tweets Crowd Out Core Progressive Issues I have a question for progressive activists: How do we stop President Trump from controlling the news cycle when we put aside our own agendas to respond to his tweets? This past weekend
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Housing, Not Shelters, Remains Best Solution to Homelessness In response to rising homelessness,  key California politicians are drawing the wrong conclusions about what needs to be done.  Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who heads Governor Newsom’s Commission on Homelessness, is leading
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This first appeared in StreetsblogUSA Cities that turn to technology companies to save their transit systems are bound to be disappointed by the outcome. Look no further than Pinellas County, Fla., whose transit authority was the first in the country
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Skid Row: Seeking Development Without Displacement Skid Row. The name evokes images of Raymond Chandler stories and film noir. People living on Skid Row were typically “on the skids.” Skid Row districts were once common throughout urban America but gentrification,
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