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Analysis: Releasing the chokehold on state housing policy can make California homes affordable again

Image by Michaël Muraz  Has stack and pack zoning in the name of climate change...
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Could San Jose lose crucial funding for interim housing units as Gavin Newsom cuts $32 billion from state budget?

Gavin Newsom states he’s not seeing the results he wants from homeless spending. In the...
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Ring: State could divert billions slated for the looming Delta Boondoggle into projects that supply much more water to all Californians

Image by Espensorvik on Flickr Rather than flush $30 billion down the Delta Tunnel, why don’t Californians...
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SF wonders: why does city’s homeless population increase just after homelessness spending soars?

Image by Wikimedia Commons There were 437 homelessness families tallied across the city, marking an...
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SJ CM Doan finds City response to homeless crisis “a failure”

Image by City of San Jose, CA. Echoing the blistering critique of SJ's homelessness programs...
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Progressive-on-progressive tussle: CA AG charges top aide to (former SF) LA DA with 11 felony violations

Image by CastorGirl on Flickr Last month, AG Rob Bonta charged LA DA George Gascón’s...
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Mission creep strangles the local and statewide once-vaunted college system

CA schools were supposed to work in tandem, from UC’s down to CCC’s like Santa...
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☆ Tanaka on CA16 primary, recount: Isn’t there a better way?

Image by Clackamas County Historical. Palo Alto CM and CA16 primary candidate Greg Tanaka reviews...
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☆ SJ D10 Candidates stake out their positions on Measure E Reallocation question

We asked District 10 Council finalists Arjun Batra and George Casey for their perspectives on...
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☆ Expert: San Jose City Manager deflects blame, misses point of critical state homeless audit

The CA state audit that blistered San Jose and statewide homelessness programs for ineffectiveness called...