Key Democrats Prioritize Luxury Homeowners Over a Sustainable Future Since California’s Governor Newsom allowed Senate leader Toni Atkins to kill SB50, the state’s leading housing production bill (See “Democratic Leaders Fail California,”  May 19), media criticism of the action has
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Long Overdue Strategy Offers Hope The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has launched the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, a non-partisan project urging presidential candidates to offer solutions to the nation’s affordable housing crisis. This strategy is long overdue.
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It’s 7:30 in the morning on June 6th and the San Francisco VA Medical Center at Fort Miley is enshrouded in early summer fog.  A group of veterans stand at the entrance to the hospital holding banners proclaiming, “Save Our
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Many Cities Advance Inadequate “Middle Ground” Strategies As the urban affordability crisis increases homelessness and prices out the working and middle-class, cities are responding in various ways. But to paraphrase the Los Angeles Times (“L.A. Spent $619 million on homelessness
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Aging Boomers Want Fourplexes in Their Neighborhoods I spoke about California’s housing emergency at UC Irvine last week and came away with an unexpected insight: while measures to increase housing density like California’s SB50 are identified with millennials, senior homeowners
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Breed Outdoes Other Big-City Mayors In Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, I describe how San Francisco became the national poster child for unaffordability. I also explain its shift to a pro-housing direction under
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Over the past year, with the aide of many in Congress, the Trump administration has moved inexorably toward the privatization of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This update is a status report on how the nine million patients who depend
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Looking back, D.C. bike advocate Dave Salovesh’s writing — about the need for better safety protections for cyclists in D.C. — seems almost prophetic. Before he was killed Friday by the driver of a stolen van on an unprotected stretch
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