July 13, 2025
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Author: Christopher Calton

Christopher Calton is the research fellow in housing and homelessness with the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif.

To Fight Corruption, San Francisco Must Decriminalize Construction

February 28, 2024   2:12 pmFebruary 28, 2024   2:12 pm
In March, San Franciscans will vote on Proposition D, an anticorruption ballot measure to tighten city rules regarding gifts to public employees. The proposed law follows a massive scandal in which private contractors and real-estate developers bribed government officials to obtain contracts...
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More Affordable-Housing Bonds?

February 8, 2024   2:14 pmFebruary 8, 2024   2:55 pm
On March 5 San Francisco voters will decide whether their city should issue $300 million in bonds to subsidize the construction of affordable housing. The matter is likely to be approved, given the voters’ track record on similar measures. In 2015 they authorized $310...
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Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Recent Housing Reforms

January 24, 2024   2:45 amJanuary 24, 2024   2:46 am
Sacramento recently took a major step toward fixing its housing crisis by adopting the “Missing Middle Housing Plan,” which will allow apartments to be built in single-family neighborhoods. In urban-planning lingo, this is “upzoning,” which raises the density limits in...
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