2023February
"The Build-Nothing Country"
This post is going to be a bit of a rant, because honestly I’m pretty frustrated, and I want the rest of you to understand and share at least a little bit of that frustration.
...More"Court blocks housing for homeless and 1,100 UC Berkeley students at People’s Park"
A California appeals court ruled Friday that a $312 million plan to turn Berkeley’s historic People’s Park into housing for about 1,100 students and more than 100 of the homeless people who regularly camp on the 2.8-acre site fails to address environmental concerns surrounding the proposed construction projects.
...More"To save downtowns, we need to embrace windowless bedrooms"
From Oct 2022
Bobby Fijan, a real estate developer who likes to tweet about floor plans, recently offered this as an example of how a contemporary downtown office building could be converted into apartments.
...More"The final curtain for the Regal UA, Berkeley’s 90-year-old art deco movie palace"
Generations of movie-goers are mourning the loss of a cinematic and architectural treasure, which closed around Feb. 3, weeks before anticipated.
...More"Are Tiny Homes a Solution to the Housing Crisis?"
A tug of war is being waged over the size of the American home.
...More"The Iconic Home Designs That Define Our Global Cities"
To understand a city, start with the foundation. Floor plans from homes around the world explain how the way we live has shaped the design and architecture of urban neighborhoods — and vice versa.
...More"Fake environmental reviews are killing good housing projects. Here’s what California can do about it"
Climate change is upon us. Even with Congress finally investing in green energy, Californians face many decades of worsening wildfires and rising seas.
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"With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work"
Tens of thousands of homes are now more buildable, including several projects now resurrected that local parking mandates had previously killed.
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