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Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 4, 2016

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

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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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The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

Tim Redmond - August 23, 2016

Developers see the California Environmental Quality Act as some sort of Great Satan, the source of pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state....

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The Agenda, July 11-17: Why bad committee appointments matter …

Tim Redmond - July 10, 2016

Pretty much everyone agrees that elected officials should be judged on their records in office, and typically that means legislation introduced, votes on difficult...

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San Francisco residents demand resources to address housing crisis

Sana Saleem - June 20, 2016

Coalitions of community, racial and economic justice, and housing groups including Jobs with Justice, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Mission Economic Development...

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The Agenda, June 20-27: The budget battle begins

Tim Redmond - June 19, 2016

It’s all about the budget this week. For months, the supes Budget and Finance Committee has been holding hearings and going over department needs and...

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Illegal office conversion: A case study

Zelda Bronstein - June 17, 2016

At the May 18 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Appeals, attorney James Reuben, a principal of Reuben, Junius & Rose, showed why...

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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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A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

Tim Redmond - May 22, 2016

The State Assembly may vote as early as Monday on a bill that would give real estate developers a huge windfall at the expense...

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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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Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

The Agenda, July 11-17: Why bad committee appointments matter …

San Francisco residents demand resources to address housing crisis

The Agenda, June 20-27: The budget battle begins

Illegal office conversion: A case study

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

A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

ABAG leaders betray local cities

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