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...
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...
Learning of devious plans behind so much of San Francisco’s fiscal fiascoes, it’s hard not to notice familiar names who endorse ballot measures. It’s a clear pattern. Coming to your mailbox next March, 2024, San Francisco voters will be asked...
Despite spending untold billions on the homeless, we now have 653,000 homeless people in the United States – 70,650 more than last year, a 12 percent increase, House and Urban Development (HUD) announced Friday in a new report. Homelessness would...
The blockbuster news this weekend that Obama Democratic Strategist David Axelrod advised President Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race after a damning poll showed him trailing behind former President Donald Trump, the New York Post reported. “David...
One of the benefits of a two-term governor is voters actually get to see the fruits of his policies while he is still in office. If he is a low-tax, budget-cutting, regulations-cutting, pro-2A, liberty-loving 1A governor, life gets better –...
A progressive economist once said that “rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing.” But California is flirting with this policy wash-up nonetheless: An initiative that would sweep aside...