2024
"San Francisco’s largest asset is also its greatest opportunity to revitalize itself"
Rumbling like a fault line between pavement and parkland, the decision to turn the Great Highway into Ocean Beach Park has divided the city.
...More"Sacramento Adopts One of the Most Progressive Missing Middle Strategies in the U.S."
Missing Middle Housing (MMH) Interim Ordinance Passed!
...More"AI founders are moving to SF from across the world to cash in on the boom"
Donald Trump has vowed to close borders and deport millions. But you wouldn’t have known that from attending an immigrant founders event in the Financial District two days after the presidential election.
...More"Liberal Berkeley’s Toughened Stance on Homeless Camps Is a Bellwether"
The progressive stronghold in California plans to target large encampments, relying on a Supreme Court decision handed down by a conservative majority.
"The blue cities must be fixed"
If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
...More"The Answer To Making Cities More Family-Friendly? Courtyards"
New housing experiments with courtyards show that this age-old design approach can still deliver for cities struggling to provide homes for families.
...More"Woodstock Development plans massive lab space buildout in Berkeley"
West Berkeley’s sizable supply of lab space could soon grow by another quarter of a million square feet.
Burlingame-based Woodstock Development filed a preapplication with Berkeley Monday to build a 247,647-square-foot research and development space at 600 Bancroft Way by the Aquatic Park.
...More"Tennessee’s HPR Law and Its Transformation of Nashville’s Housing Market: A Model for Other States"
Since the mid-2000s, Nashville, Tennessee, has undergone a housing boom that created thousands of new homeownership opportunities in established urban districts. Among the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Nashville now ranks second for having the most recently built, single-family, attached and detached homes for sale within five miles of the central business district.
...More"Argentina Scrapped Its Rent Controls. Now the Market Is Thriving."
President Javier Milei’s fiscal ‘shock therapy’ yields lower rents overall, but some people feel squeezed
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