housing
Santa Monica’s no-growth measure will stunt affordable housing
October 11, 2016LV tops every effort at public participation and complicates efforts to serve the poor and desperate, and hamstrings every effort to house low-wage families who work in Santa Monica.
Read moreAffordable housing a big election issue in Bay Area
October 11, 2016The measures are fueled by the rapid rise of housing costs in the nine Bay Area counties.
Read moreDivest from Pentagon, invest in people
April 25, 2016On Tax Day, protesters were staging a press conference with the latest attempt at temporary housing for the homeless.
Read moreBehind Flint water horror, a corrosive cynicism
February 3, 2016Republican Governor Rick Snyder's men have wreaked untold economic damage on the residents of Flint on top of the threat to their health.
Read moreThis week in history: Robert Clifton Weaver, first Black U.S. Cabinet member
January 19, 2016Weaver noted there was a great difference between the income of most African Americans and the cost of living.
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