Zelda Bronstein, Author at 48 hills

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Facebook money and California housing

May 29, 2019

On January 24, 2019, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the limited liability company founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

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The Sierra Club attacks our story; here’s our response

February 24, 2019

On February 19, the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter posted an entry on its home page blog attacking my article “The Sierra Club...

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The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

February 17, 2019

Are you a Sierra Club member who lives in Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Alameda, Piedmont or San Leandro? If so, you fall under the aegis...

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CASA’s secret New York junket

January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

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What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

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BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

March 22, 2018

On March 8, the BART Board voted 5-4 to support SB 827 – state Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bill -- with undetermined amendments that...

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Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

February 1, 2018

On January 19, I attended UCLA Extension’s 2018 Land Use Law and Planning Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Seated in...

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Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

December 3, 2017

Of the fifteen bills in the “housing package” signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on September 29, the one that got the most...

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The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

October 19, 2017

One of the hallmarks of neoliberalism is the application of market solutions to market-generated problems. It’s an approach that’s bound to fail, because market-generated...

Zelda Bronstein

Facebook money and California housing

The Sierra Club attacks our story; here’s our response

The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

CASA’s secret New York junket

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

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