housing
Health care, housing, education top California’s legislative agenda
January 14, 2016Gov. Brown is calling for "significant increases" for education, health care, environment, and infrastructure spending in the $123 billion 2016-17 general fund.
Read moreGun control alone can’t curb violence
January 7, 2016Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.
Read moreHUD: Arrests cannot be used to deny affordable housing
January 7, 2016Governmental agencies have begun tilting toward less incarceration, and more restorative justice and rehabilitation.
Read moreRezoning plan will cause more displacement in New York
November 19, 2015The plan is generating resistance from community members, who say that it will usher in more displacement than truly affordable housing.
Read moreA people’s agenda: Reflections of a progressive’s first year in office
October 26, 2015At City Hall the voice of the people, and the engagement of the public, is often an afterthought: We need to get our priorities straight.
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