Category Housing and Homelessness

CA Prop. 21 Would Scale back Amount and High quality of Rental Housing

CA Prop. 21 Would Scale back Amount and High quality of Rental Housing Everybody agrees that housing prices in California are extraordinarily excessive and push many people and households over the sting financially. In such an surroundings, capping rents would…

Solely in California: The place “Inexpensive Housing” Prices Greater than 5-Star Luxurious

Solely in California: The place “Inexpensive Housing” Prices Greater than 5-Star Luxurious Have you ever ever dreamt about dwelling in luxurious on the seaside in Maui? Sadly, that is only a dream for many of us due to its value.…

Solely in San Francisco: $61,000 Tents and $350,000 Public Bogs

San Francisco has the best per-capita funds of any main metropolis within the nation. At $15,650 per particular person, it’s about 40 % increased than Invoice de Blasio’s over-the-top New York Metropolis funds. You’ll assume San Franciscans would have fantastic…

All Housing Is Inexpensive Housing

All housing is inexpensive housing. If builders construct low-cost housing, the worth of all housing besides the very most luxurious will fall. Alternatively, and maybe much less clearly, if we construct extra luxurious housing, then the worth of all housing…

Do They Not Know?

Many people who keep in mind when jap Europeans have been imprisoned behind an Iron Curtain—and who rejoiced when that Curtain crashed in 1989, quickly to be adopted by the demise of the USSR in 1991—look with a mix of…

Worry of Hobgoblins Doesnt Justify Zoning

H.L. Mencken as soon as famously stated “The entire intention of sensible politics is to maintain the populace alarmed (and therefore clamorous to be led to security) by an countless sequence of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” I’ve heard it…

Buttigieg’s ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Will Remedy Nothing

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has taken flak from some conservatives for his new “Reconnecting Communities” initiative. He says its objective is to redress the truth that planners and politicians of the previous constructed highways “straight via the guts of…

The Value of San Francisco’s Reparations Proposal: Practically $600,000 Per Family

Final week, San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted a proposal to town’s Human Rights Fee that will pay each eligible African American grownup dwelling in San Francisco $5 million. The report requires 18 different monetary suggestions, together with…

San Francisco Falls Additional into the Abyss as Workplace Values Plunge 75 %

The previous Union Financial institution constructing within the coronary heart of San Francisco’s monetary district, positioned at 350 California Road, was auctioned off final week. The successful bid was $65 million, roughly 75 % much less on a per-square-foot foundation…

When It Involves Inequality, We Ought to Rely Our Blessings

Your next-door neighbor simply added an enormous deck in again, and the man throughout the road has a brand new Tesla within the driveway. They’re pulling forward, and you might be falling behind. No one likes being outclassed. In the…