Dick Spotswood: Support for 50-story apartment building in Sunset District should concern Marin
No matter the issue, there are always those who push ideas to their logical extreme. That’s happening now in the ever-controversial topic of housing. Beleaguered San Francisco is facing attempts to build a 50-story, 712-unit apartment tower in the city’s Sunset...CITY-STATE RELATIONS AT AN ALL-TIME LOW
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS In California’s 172 years as an American state, relations between its government and the more than 400 cities within state boundaries have never been as contested and hostile and litigated as now. Dozens of cities in most parts of...Power Players’ Problematic Playbook For Housing
Posted by: Sharon Rushton – May 19, 2023 – 7:27pm Since 2008 and accelerating in 2016, State lawmakers have been following the same playbook, which has been largely written by the lobbying efforts of Big Real Estate, Big Tech, and Big Wall Street...The state housing secrecy just keeps getting worse and worse
Crucial planning decisions are made behind closed-doors, with Yimby stakeholders—and the public can’t even get the basic records. By ZELDA BRONSTEIN Ben Metcalf directed the California Department of Housing and Community Development from November 2015 to...Is OC’s Most Progressive City Set to Challenge State Housing Goals?
BY BRANDON PHO May 17, 2023 Apartment complexes in Santa Ana on May 18, 2020. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC Officials in one of Orange County’s most progressive cities might be poised to exempt themselves from state housing mandates. While neighboring towns like...Donate
