Featured, Government Issues, Letters
As Predicted, Senator Wiener Guts and Amends SB 592 Hydee Feldstein* The Gut and Amend A “gut and amend” technically may be legal but it is not necessarily moral or good governance. The...
Featured, Government Issues
Local governments continue to exacerbate the housing crisis while blaming NIMBYs — and making it easier for Wiener World legislators to push bills that destroy our quality of life. Huge office complexes are being actively pursued in downtown San Jose Google is...
Featured, Government Issues, Letters
” I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages—the less you know about the process the more you respect the result.'” Just today (Thursday 6/13), Senator Scott Wiener did what we had heard and predicted that he would...
Editorials, Featured, Transportation
BY ELAINE GOODMANDaily Post Correspondent More than a decade ago, Bay Area regional planning agencies launched a growth strategy intended to concentrate new jobs and housing at designated sites close to transit — so-called Priority Development Areas or PDAs. Now,...
Editorials, Featured, Government Issues
Developers would pay for only 20 percent of the demand their projects create – so why are we still building so much office space? The long-awaited Nexus Study documenting how much affordable housing is actually needed for the added workforce of new...
Featured, Government Issues
EDITOR’s NOTE: We would like to thank Hydee Feldstein for the preparation of this detailed analysis of the newly proposed housing laws. You can find the actual text of the bill as amended through 5/1/19 here:...
