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There’s only one way to get the money to save the Bay Area from transit and housing chaos

Tim Redmond - November 21, 2022

So why is nobody talking about the $14 trillion in tech wealth?

Housing

Lawsuit seeks to block Plan Bay Area 2050—and prevent gentrification

Tim Redmond - November 28, 2021

Petition argues that the sweeping regional planning proposal would displace tens of thousands of vulnerable residents in the name of more high-end development.

News + Politics

Plan Bay Area 2050 is a recipe for displacement of vulnerable communities

John Elberling - October 13, 2021

The document needs major changes if it has any hope of promoting social equity.

Housing

ABAG’s regional housing plan is a fantasy

John Elberling - January 27, 2021

The affordable housing won't get built, developers will get rich, and low-income communities will be devastated.

Opinion

Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich

John Elberling - August 10, 2020

Editor's note: Plan Bay Area, a joint effort of the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, is creating a "blueprint"...

News + Politics

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Zelda Bronstein - August 17, 2019

48 hills’ “Facebook money and California housing” series delves into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s multi-million-dollar funding of the pro-growth shadow government that’s reshaping California...

News + Politics

Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit

Calvin Welch - May 2, 2019

State Sen. Scott Wiener is promoting his housing bill, SB 50, as an example of environmental progress, since the measure is pushing transit-oriented development...

News + Politics

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

Zelda Bronstein - 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...

Exclusive

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Zelda Bronstein - 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...

News + Politics

The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

Zelda Bronstein - 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...

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There’s only one way to get the money to save the Bay Area from transit and housing chaos

Lawsuit seeks to block Plan Bay Area 2050—and prevent gentrification

Plan Bay Area 2050 is a recipe for displacement of vulnerable communities

ABAG’s regional housing plan is a fantasy

Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit

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

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

The Lexus Lanes — and why they won’t work

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