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UCLA’s secretive neoliberal housing conference

It’s worse than Davos: A one-sided policy event with no dissenters—and no reporters unless they sign gag orders. By ZELDA BRONSTEIN MARCH 23, 2023 If you were looking for an event that epitomizes the neoliberalization of the University of California, you’d be...

Palo Alto Mayor Assails State Housing Mandates

Housing, Legislation, Litigation

Mayor suggests ambitious targets make it impossible for cities to achieve affordable-housing goals by Gennady Sheyner / Palo Alto Weekly Uploaded: Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 11:50 pm 12 Palo Alto Mayor Lydia Kou speaks at the State of the City event at the Palo Alto Art...

Is LA Times Reporter Liam Dillon a Shill for Big Real Estate?

Housing, Media, Opinion

In Featured, News by Housing Is A Human RightMarch 9, 2023 A weeks-long Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that Los Angeles Times housing reporter Liam Dillon (in gray suit above) participated in at least 20 real estate industry events since 2016,...

Hopes for responsible housing plan in California are a fading fantasy

Housing, Legislation, Opinion

By JACKSON STROMBERG | March 3, 2023 at 1:35 p.m. Let’s indulge in a fantasy. Imagine the California legislators and bureaucrats working on housing could see eight years into the future, when the next set of housing element plans are due. Maybe they can see 16 years...

The Currys have the right to speak out

Housing, Legislation, Opinion

As we all do about what is built next door GUEST OPINION BY LYDIA KOU Palo Alto Daily PostFebruary 6, 2023 Basketball legend Steph Curry recently sent a letter to local officials expressing concerns about how a new housing development near his Atherton home...

California has a big housing deadline on Wednesday — and most Bay Area cities aren’t prepared

Housing, Legislation

Single family homes are seen in San Francisco’s Sunset district.Lea Suzuki, Staff Photographer / Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle When Feb. 1 arrives and Bay Area cities and counties are required to have state-approved plans showing how they will build more housing in the...