By Michael Barnes
48 Hills
The one-time radical left magazine has gone all Yimby on us
I have written the following rebuttal because I wanted to set the record straight on many of the contentious housing issues that are being misrepresented in the media.
By Leon Huntting
We do not have a housing crisis, we have an affordability crisis. You can build as much housing as you want, but that doesn’t mean people can afford to buy or rent it. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) mandate for the Bay Area is 441,176 new units. Several sources, including the state auditor, have shown that this is very overstated.
By DICK SPOTSWOOD
Marin has been blessed with multiple candidates with diverse talents for local offices. Some win and others lose. It’s good practice to reflect on some first-class ideas that some losing candidates offered.
In the recent Novato City Council election one first-time candidate who failed to prevail, Jim Petray, offered a set of suggestions aimed at remedying the city’s long-term financial difficulties.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) —
An eye-opening new research study says nearly every close-in city has lost population in the past two years. And as people seek lower-cost housing or a better lifestyle, this has implications for our transportation network, which is why the MTC, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, is paying attention.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored for his courageous civil rights efforts. He advised, “The forces of good and evil are always in play.” He warned it’s not what bad people do, but the silence of good people.
Like the dark days of 1968, when both King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated and the Viet Nam war raged on, we face new challenges: COVID, wild inflation, escalating homelessness, and Sacramento legislators’ efforts to eliminate local control.
At the CO$TMarin webinar on “Clifornia’s New Housing Laws: Truth AND Consequences” Sen. Mike McGuire, co-author of SB9 stated that the law allowed cities to deed restrict properties ‘in perpetuity’. On November 1st at the Mill Valley City Council meeting, Mayor John McCauley challenged McGuire to prove his claim.