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Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Thomas Lord - May 19, 2017

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), a product of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), assigns to each Bay Area Jurisdiction quotas of...

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The mayor’s latest housing plan won’t work

Calvin Welch - May 7, 2017

Mayor Lee and Supervisor Tang are at it again: They’ve proposed a density bonus plan for the second most dense city in the nation....

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Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

Calvin Welch - May 2, 2017

“The market is powerful, but we need other things. That’s why we have regulations. We have to go against the flow and re channel...

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The year that local zoning control comes under attack

Zelda Bronstein - January 9, 2017

2017 is already shaping up as a year in which local control of development will come under unprecedented assault in California and in the...

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Wiener’s first bill could set off housing war

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2016

State Senator Scott Wiener has wasted no time in wading into the statewide housing wars – just as affordable housing advocates have released a...

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More than a million people in SF? Did anyone ask you?

Zelda Bronstein - November 28, 2016

It’s hard not to be riveted by the terrifying advance of Donald Trump’s presidency. But it would be a huge mistake to ignore less...

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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

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Have regional planners set their targets on SF’s growth-control law?

Zelda Bronstein - June 15, 2016

Plan Bay Area—the controversial, state-mandated regional “blueprint” for land use and transportation planning through 2040—is back. Actually, it never went away; it just stopped...

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ABAG leaders betray local cities

Zelda Bronstein - May 18, 2016

The latest betrayal of Bay Area cities by the leadership of the Association of Bay Area Governments occurred on May 17, when the Joint...

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A regional-planning coup

Zelda Bronstein - May 16, 2016

In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and...

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Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

The mayor’s latest housing plan won’t work

Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

The year that local zoning control comes under attack

Wiener’s first bill could set off housing war

More than a million people in SF? Did anyone ask you?

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Have regional planners set their targets on SF’s growth-control law?

ABAG leaders betray local cities

A regional-planning coup

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