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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...

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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...

News + Politics

The problem with “smart growth”

John Elberling - July 12, 2017

I think we can all stipulate that in general "Smart Growth" -- environmentally-responsible urban development -- is good. And in general more housing to...

News + Politics

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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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

The problem with “smart growth”

The year that local zoning control comes under attack

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