Author: Timothy L. Coyle

It is heartwarming to hear that in Richmond, with its super-high housing costs, a teacher is starting the academic year as a first-time homebuyer –

As has been reported in this space many times, the vexing problem of homelessness is a national disgrace but, so say the experts, it’s also

In California, it’s legal to be a squatter. That is, the law allows individuals to occupy a rental house or apartment without a lease or

A NIMBY group may be satisfied with stopping a housing project in their neighborhood but I wonder if they realize that their efforts are discriminatory

California households know it too well.  State lawmakers – at least when asked – say it is.  Academicians and pundits write about it all the

NOTE: Recently in this space, I wrote about the welcome news that the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper editorialized in favor of a North County housing

Time was when you could almost always count on a daily metropolitan newspaper in California siding with environmentalists and other opponents of a proposed new

A chorus of opponents of Proposition 10, the statewide rent-control initiative on this year’s November ballot, is growing louder and eminently more boisterous.  It isn’t

Ever wonder where your tax dollars go every year?  Certainly, you know that federal, state and local governments hire a lot of people – and