No Need to Wait for Federal Measure Since a federal version won’t pass under President Trump, why not push for all blue cities to immediately enact local Green New Deals? This would clearly start with the elimination of the exclusionary
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YIMBY Democrats of San Diego Are on a Roll In 2016, Maya Rosas was elected to the Uptown Planners, a board that advises the San Diego Planning Commission on land use. Rosas was much younger than the other members and
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(This first appeared in CommonDreams.org) “You left us no choice, we have to use our teacher voice!” Taking their place among a national awakening of public school educators demanding better treatment of their profession and better schools for their students,
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Race, Class and the Urban Housing Crisis Tonight offers a rare opportunity to hear two related perspectives on the urban housing crisis from authors of new books on this subject: Professor Jessica Trounstine, author of: Segregation by Design: Local Politics
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Here’s the latest evidence that Uber and Lyft are destroying our world: Students at the University of California Los Angeles are taking an astonishing 11,000 app-based taxi trips every week that begin and end within the boundaries of the campus.
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Housing Brings Foot Traffic, Customers Nobody likes vacant storefronts. They deaden street life, send a message of neighborhood decline, and deprive the community of needed retail services. The challenge is finding the cure. Many cities have seized upon a vacancy
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Beto O’Rourke’s Troubling Loyalties As former Texas Congressperson Beto O’Rourke prepares a presidential run, more is being learned about his record. O’Rourke has been accused with voting with Republicans on some issues, and the January 20 Sunday New York Times
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Opposing Infill Housing is not “Progressive” Housing is disrupting “progressive” politics. Specifically,  it is exposing traditional “progressive” politicians for maintaining elitist and exclusionary zoning policies. Many  of these “progressives” support pro-mansion land use policies that ban apartments, while it is
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