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Editorial | Is the California housing crisis leading to a tech brain drain?
Stories about California’s housing crisis often focus on how the high cost of shelter hammers the...
A Tech Company Wades Into Housing Politics
Today, Stripe, the six-year-old online payments company that has been valued at $9 billion by...
Priced out of the American dream
A decade after he moved from Nevada to Silicon Valley in search of his slice of the technology...
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...
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...
Opinion: Real progressives would embrace Scott Wiener’s SB 827 housing bill
For decades, efforts to restrict new housing in Berkeley and the broader Bay Area have driven up...
Editorial: Defeat of California housing bill reveals a crisis of political courage
What distinguished and doomed Senate Bill 827 is that it would have overruled local officials’ use...
The Urban Housing Crisis Is a Test for Progressive Politics
Opponents of allowing more dense housing construction associate the solution with gentrification,...
California Lawmakers Kill Housing Bill After Fierce Debate
Just before a committee of California state senators voted on a landmark bill to ramp up housing...
SB 827 would maximize housing near transit in California
California’s thriving economy continues to be the workhorse of American prosperity. In recent...