Affordable Housing Not the Key to End Homeless Crisis
Politicians tell us if we can just build enough affordable housing, California’s difficult homeless situation would end. To that end they have encouraged voters to support tax increases while searching for legislative remedies to ease the crisis. Yet, a simple formula of affordable housing will not address the problem by itself. On Sunday’s version of […]
The Top Two Produces a Presidential Candidate
Congressman Eric Swalwell is running for president, and a country and even his own home state are asking: Who is this guy? And why on earth is he running? The answer lies in California’s perverse top two election system. Swalwell is a creature of top two, which makes him the first presidential candidate from the […]
Too Few Homes, Too Many Homeless: Part Two, How to Fix It
We’re well into spring in subtropical California. Up and down the coast, from Venice Beach to San Francisco, tens of thousands of homeless people live in makeshift abodes, strewn along the streets and alleys, the beaches and boardwalks, beside parking garages, freeway onramps, and under bridges. Their numbers increasing every year, they now live openly […]
Factions Take Shape as California Advances Nationally Watched Police Shooting Bill
Even as a landmark California bill meant to prevent police shootings passed its first committee Tuesday, the fault lines among Democrats began to emerge, suggesting the measure will likely change as it moves through the Legislature. How much, though, was not yet clear. After emotional, standing-room-only testimony from Californians whose loved ones have been killed […]