By Zelda Bronstein
48 Hills
Since the 1970s, apostles of growth have decried local control of land use as the evil that has to be stamped out if housing is ever to become abundant and broadly affordable.
Most importantly, as documented by a February report from Terner and the Urban Institute, that doctrine has been read into state land use law across the country, with California leading the way.
So are the new laws working?
Yes and No
Posted by: Gaetan Lion – July 26, 2023 – 5:39pm
Within my previous essay, I developed a California population forecast given that Sacramento’s population forecast released in July 2021 seemed way too high.
To my surprise, the DRU did revise their forecast just a few days ago. And, now their forecast appears a lot more realistic.
This is a really positive development that hopefully will lead Sacramento to revise its housing mandates downward.
By Gaetan Lion
A couple of weeks ago I posted an essay on generating a realistic Marin County population projection. I uncovered that Sacramento’s population projections for Marin County were way too high because of their overly aggressive migration assumptions. I wanted to check if this was the case for California as a whole.
My data sources for historical and projected population growth are the same as I used in my earlier essay:
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.