Dec 26, 2025 | Housing, Opinion, Politics
By DAN WALTERS
December 20, 2025
When Gavin Newsom was running for governor he made many promises, one of which was to ramp up housing production, which had been in the doldrums for a decade.
Describing housing as “a fundamental human need,” Newsom said the shortage “breaks my heart” and promised that as governor he would lead the effort to develop “the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025, because our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big.” The goal was impossible on its face, and he later backed away from it, terming it “aspirational” rather than achievable.
Dec 13, 2025 | Housing, Legislation, Opinion
By Gaeton Lion
December 13, 2025
In the article published Dec. 2 with the headline “Marin benefits, spending outlined in regional plan,” Metropolitan Transportation Commission planner Adam Noelting touts the benefits of Plan Bay Area 2050+. However, based on my calculations, the plan appears to rest on implausible forecasts. MTC seemingly assumes the Bay Area will grow nearly 10 times faster than the rest of California despite historically growing slower than the state.
Nov 9, 2025 | Housing, Opinion
By Susan Kirsch
November 9, 2021
San Francisco Bay Area residents are once again being given a chance to see what regional planners propose for us through 2050 and the predicted impacts on our lives. Their joint blueprint, Plan Bay Area 2050+, identifies needs and revenues for implementing 35 strategies covering transportation, housing, the economy and the environment.
Oct 30, 2025 | Housing, Opinion
By Gaetan Lion
October 30, 2025
MTC/ABAG’s Bay Area Population Projections Are Fundamentally Flawed.
MTC/ABAG’s economic projections don’t just strain credulity — they represent a form of planning fiction that can lead to profoundly misguided policy decisions. Housing mandates, infrastructure investments, and environmental projections all flow from these unrealistic growth assumptions. If the foundation is flawed, everything built upon it becomes suspect.
Sep 25, 2025 | Legislation, Opinion, Politics
by Diana Diamond
September 25, 2025
Two days after Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California legislature placed Prop 50, a redistricting measure, on the Nov.4 special election ballot, I received three 8 x 11 glossy campaign mailings, urging me to “Say No” to “Unconstitutional Gerrymandering.” One flier declared, “California families struggle with soaring costs, and the states sink deeper into deficit, Governor Newsom and the legislature are scheming to take redistricting power away from our Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.”
Sep 20, 2025 | Opinion, Legislation
By Damon Connolly
September 20, 2025
It is tragically self-evident that the Trump administration poses a unique threat to our freedoms, shared values and diverse communities. The National Guard is being sent to American cities against the will of local elected leaders and the residents themselves, federal agencies designed to help the most vulnerable are being gutted and whole neighborhoods live in fear that their family members will be seized and sent off to brutal foreign prisons without due process.
