A lot of people are upset at Jerry Brown, the governor of California, for being stingy with affordable housing funding, but he has a point: if cities severely limit how…
NOTE: This was written on January 4, 2018. The bill has been amended a lot since that time and this information is no longer current.
Back in February, I wrote a comment on the Central SOMA plan Environmental Impact Report. Here it is, word for word, with a short postscript. Enjoy.
I read much of the EIR, and I generally like what’s going on, though as you probably guessed…
Mansions are artificially cheap? That may seem strange. Mansions are, after all, by and large expensive things. In fact, one often suspects their very expensiveness is their chief function…
This post is a little different from most that you will find on Medium, in that I intend to keep updating it over time. If you are interested in learning more about…
We have a housing shortage in the entire Bay Area, and it’s not going to blow over unless we change some things. Palo Alto’s recent lifting of restrictions on in-law…
According to Liam Dillon in the LA Times, SB 827, the “transit-rich housing bonus,” would “dramatically increase housing density near transit stops across California.” I wrote another piece already on how…