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Why build near transit?
Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. By Paul Zykofsky, AICP Director, Center for Livable CommunitiesPublished: Transit California; December 1998/January 1999 Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. In recent years communities all across the nation…
Read MorePermanent Supportive Housing fails on most measures, research finds
August 18, 2022 Local nonprofit spokespeople recently took to the op-ed pages of local media to buttress SJ’s widely criticized Housing First and Permanent Supportive Housing strategies. Their rickety defense neglects crucial details on how barrier-free permanent housing is ineffective, costly, and wrongly targeted. Various expert sources below analyze PSH’s inadequacies to assist local communities. To receive daily updates of…
Read MoreThe present now will later be past
New state law paves way for 30-unit townhome development in Atherton Glenwood Avenue project taps SB79, which allows multifamily housing near transit stops AlphaX RE Capital submitted a preliminary application for a 30-unit townhome development at 110 Glenwood Ave. in Atherton, near Nativity School. Renderings show what one of the five-unit buildings may look like.…
Read MoreThe surge is on. Eight states. Eight weeks. No turning back.
It’s happening. Election Day is almost here and Turning Point PAC is surging ballot-chasers across eight states simultaneously These are some of the districts that will decide who controls Congress. And our people are on the ground in all of them — right now, today — knocking doors, building relationships, and banking early votes before…
Read MoreTemporary housing unfairly criticized
The Social and Individual Effects of Homeless Shelter: Evidence from Temporary Shelter Provision What does homeless shelter achieve? We leverage administrative records of homeless services in Los Angeles County to construct a novel dataset of daily, site-level counts of shelter beds and occupants from 2014 to 2019. We pair this with daily, block-level crime incident…
Read MoreCharlie’s final warning
Sponsored Message Patriot, This is not a comfortable message to send. I wasn’t sure if it was the right time, place, or manner to speak on this issue. But time is NOT on our side right now. Just 24 hours before he was brutally murdered, Charlie Kirk issued what many are now calling his final…
Read MoreGovernment Should Never Fund The Press
Newsom’s latest media grants cross a line government should never cross A Dangerous Line Here’s something every California taxpayer ought to think about. Sacramento now wants you to help pay for the very media organizations responsible for covering Sacramento. Governor Gavin Newsom this week announced another $20 million in taxpayer grants for California media organizations,…
Read MoreSJ housing getting even more expensive
San Jose Rent Report: August 2026 Welcome to the Apartment List August 2026 Rent Report for San Jose, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $3,118, after rising 1.8% last month. Prices and are now up 6.4% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the San Jose…
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