Posts by Take Back San Jose

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

by Mike EgeEditor in chief, The Voice of San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey speaking during a Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee hearing on Southern Police District funding, on May 28, 2026. SFGovTV Is there really a “Nonprofit Industrial Complex?”  District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey is uncomfortable with the term. “But I’ve also been frustrated to…

Special ReportsNovember 19, 2020 VTA’s budget woes and dubious expenditures are all the news, but these are just the latest faceplants for one of the worst-performing transit agencies in the U.S. Randal O’Toole of the Thoreau Institute explores the issue in this exclusive analysis for Opportunity Now. Part 1: A Loser Among Losers The coronavirus…

Retail sales taxes are a major revenue source for most states, accounting for 32 percent of state tax collections and 13 percent of local tax collections (24 percent of combined collections). They are generally considered more pro-growth than income taxes because they introduce fewer economic distortions. Forty-five states levy a state-level sales tax, and 38 states allow local sales…