San Francisco’s Academy of Art University (AAU) is a convenient symbol for the city’s affordable housing crisis. AAU has failed to timely comply with planning department requirements and added thousands of students without building housing for them. City Attorney Dennis Read More »
Tonight, some of the Bay Area’s greatest musicians and their equally amazing global compadres roll into the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley for what promises to be an incredible evening of music. “Aspada”, a global fusion super group, is led Read More »
Parents manage a huge pile of details to guide their children’s education, from lunch logistics to transportation to homework—all while holding down jobs and the home front.
What, then, happens when a recession hits, state education funding is drastically cut, Read More »
(Ed Note: Leading Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence wrote this in response to a very inaccurate story on Jane Jacobs in The New Yorker. It is worth reading regardless if you have read the article it challenges).
Jane Jacobs made grown Read More »
Coalition for Economic Survival members facing landlord attempts to coerce them out of their affordable rent controlled units showed up at LA City Hall on September 21 seeking City Council action to better protect them. After telling their stories in Read More »
I’ve recently written how Jane Jacobs’s 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities promoted a vision for urban neighborhoods that made them more desirable. Some even blame Jacobs for cities becoming too desirable, associating her with the widespread gentrification Read More »
A new study on SRO Hotels in San Francisco contends that residents are in poorer health than the general population. The Public Health Commission has recommended training and data analysis in response. A Beyond Chron analysis of the DPH data, Read More »
The Obama administration is taking on the crisis of rising rents in American cities, releasing a series of recommendations today to spur the construction of more affordable housing. Among the many ideas the White House endorses: allowing more multi-family housing Read More »
