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Whose American Dream?

Homeownership is the primary driver of economic wealth in our country. If California’s housing and poverty advocates really want to achieve their vision of an equitable and prosperous society, they must include not just a drive for public and subsidized…

A Tech Company Wades Into Housing Politics

Today, Stripe, the six-year-old online payments company that has been valued at $9 billion by private investors, is expected to announce a $1 million donation to California Yimby, a housing advocacy organization that was a driving force behind a recently killed bill that…

Priced out of the American dream

A decade after he moved from Nevada to Silicon Valley in search of his slice of the technology boom, Victor Barrera’s tenuous toehold in one of America’s most expensive property markets finally slipped. Since March the landscaping worker has been…

Who will control land use in California?

California, state officials say, needs to be building 180,000 new units of housing a year to keep up with population growth, replace housing that’s lost to fire and old age and make a dent in the backlog. However, the state…

Why Was California’s Radical Housing Bill so Unpopular?

What Wiener and his co-sponsor Nancy Skinner, representing the East Bay, proposed was nothing less than to upend the entire framework for the past century of American racial politics and wealth building. But by forcing politicians and organizations to lay…