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Facebook Pledges $1 Billion In Affordable Housing Funds In California

October 25, 2019 8:32 am

Social media company Facebook pledged to put $1 billion into affordable housing Tuesday in an attempt to alleviate the California housing crisis, particularly in Northern California. The announcement came four months after Google outlined a similar program also amounting to...

New Poll Finds That More Californians Than Ever Are Considering Leaving The State

October 24, 2019 5:48 pm

A new poll from UC Berkeley has found that over half of all Californians have given at least “some consideration” to move to another state. While California has seen a jump in moving outside the state in recent years, the...

Controversial Law Removing Many Local Laws To Allow More Housing Construction Signed By Governor

October 10, 2019 8:39 pmOctober 11, 2019 8:34 am

SB 330, which will allow for speedy timelines for housing permits, a ban on construction moratoriums, limits the number of public hearings on new housing projects, and forbids housing density reductions, was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom this...

San Francisco’s Prop. A: Expensive Insanity Marches On

October 8, 2019 10:05 amOctober 8, 2019 7:38 am

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein There is no solid evidence that one of history’s greatest geniuses ever said this, but its applicability to California’s housing crisis is...

Gov. Newsom’s Executive Order Authorizing Theft of Voter-Approved Gas Tax Money

October 7, 2019 3:15 pmOctober 8, 2019 3:15 pm

Through an Executive Order, California Governor Gavin Newsom has redirected gas tax money to fund railway systems and other projects. The gas tax revenue would have repaired and upgraded the state’s broken highways and roads. Californians pay the highest gas...

RECAP: SB 330, The Bill That Would Restrict The Housing Laws of Individual Cities

September 24, 2019 1:50 pm

In the midst of a housing crisis, the battle over a city deciding for itself what it’s needs are vs. what the state needs are clashing again in the form of SB 330. What is it? Senate Bill 330. SB...

The Housing Crisis Part II: Los Angeles

September 23, 2019 4:22 pmSeptember 24, 2019 9:21 am

Walking down East 3rd Street in Los Angeles, on the border of the neighborhood known as “Skid Row,” a man in his late 40s wearing a faded Los Angeles Raiders t-shirt pointed to a bank of condos. “I used to...