Thoughts on the Recent Legislative Session; The Housing Crisis Unresolved
While the legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom had some solid accomplishments in the recent session, they fell short in dealing with California’s great curse of homelessness and the related shortage of housing affordable enough for working people. This is not a surprise. Homelessness and the housing shortage have so far proved immune to any solution. […]
Sacramento’s Housing War on SoCal
Many normal Californians may not be familiar with the acronyms RHNA or the more mellifluous SCAG, and why should they? In an ideal world with a rational and well-working government, they might very well have no reason to be concerned with a Regional Housing Needs Assessment or even the Southern California Association of Governments. But […]
Trump Intervention on Homelessness Would Get Californians Off the Hook
For California’s state and local officials, what would a Trump intervention on homelessness represent? Political deliverance. Our officials haven’t been able to get a handle on a wickedly complicated problem—despite huge investments of money and time on homelessness. The public thus blames, correctly, local and state officials who can’t rally to address homelessness. (The public […]
California, The Cradle Of Climate Jingoism
If the Los Angeles Times, with a daily circulation of more than 650,000, isn’t the most influential newspaper west of the Mississippi, then it’s 1B. That’s why it’s doubly dangerous that the Times editorial board has recently published a three-part series on climate change, the final installment claiming without supporting evidence that “surviving climate change […]