Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and director of the school’s Benioff #Homelessness and Housing Initiative, told the Los Angeles Times that the report’s figures appear to be a realistic cost to “counteract decades of starved funding” for low-income housing and social services.

#HomelessnessIsAtTheIntersectionOfWarMisogynyPovertyMilitarismRacismAndCorporateTheocracy
#HousePeopleNotCars

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/10/california-cost-to-end-homelessness/

Submitted as a state density bonus project, developers are waiving height and density limits as they are outlined in the city’s Downtown Precise Plan — which limits heights to eight stories or 92 feet. The state density bonus allows for mixed-use housing projects that include senior housing developments flexibility from development standards to streamline the production of needed housing. 

#HousePeopleNotCars #HomelessnessIsAtTheIntersectionOfWarMisogynyPovertyMilitarismRacismAndCorporateTheocracy

https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/developer-sees-housing-towers-as-way-to-help-seniors/article_ddc22cb2-6e8a-11ef-848f-93a202389219.html

#HousePeopleNotCars?

It was not known immediately why the protesters were there.

Protesters block I-880 in Oakland, forcing closure of all lanes https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/15/protesters-block-i-880-in-oakland-forcing-closure-of-all-lanes/

#MoneyToLevelApartmentsInGazaAndBuildSettlementsButAffordableHousingIsBroke: Under the proposed ordinance, 20% of affordable apartments in city-funded properties would be reserved for lower-income applicants who live in census tracts that the city deems “high-displacement” areas. Additionally, 15% of affordable apartments would be set aside for lower-income applicants living within the same City Council district as the available affordable housing units.

“We can’t continue to allow displacement to tear apart families and communities in the Bay Area,” Mahan said.

#HomelessnessIsAtTheIntersectionOfWarMisogynyPovertyMilitarismRacism

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/21/san-jose-mayor-mahan-calls-for-council-to-pass-anti-displacement-ordinance-to-combat-gentrification/

#HousePeopleNotCars

#SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded: “Homelessness is growing not because cities lack ways to punish people for being poor, but because a growing number of hard-working Americans are struggling to pay rent and make ends meet,” the National Homelessness Law Center said in a statement shortly after the SCOTUS announced that it would hear the case.
An unhoused person is 11 times more likely to be arrested than a housed person.

#GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-criminalization-of-homelessness/

#HousePeopleNotCars

In Just Action, we describe the importance of truly mixed-income housing—developments with units affordable to lower-, middle-, and upper-income families. While the HOC achieves that goal better than other affordable housing programs, it could go even further by requiring a larger percentage of middle-income units. We also stress the importance of mixed-race developments and note that without race-specific preferences, the HOC may not achieve racial integration in its projects. But, with African American and Hispanic renters’ lower average incomes than whites, localities are unlikely to create racially de-segregated communities without providing housing for a range of affordability levels. The HOC’s strategy is a step towards achieving that goal.

#HousingIsAHumanRight #HousePeopleNotCars #GuaranteedBasicIncomeNow

https://open.substack.com/pub/justaction/p/reimagining-public-housing?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

https://scitechdaily.com/microplastics-from-tires-are-polluting-our-waterways/

Contaminating #stormwater (not counting #TireFillHasPFASAnd6PPDq in plastic grass playfields, etc): the research indicated that during rainfall, about 95% of the microplastics detected in stormwater runoff were from tire wear, ranging between 2 and 59 particles for every liter of water.

#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #RemoveRoads #HousePeopleNotCars #GiveFeetAChance #AtmosphericRiversNeedTransferOfDevelopmentRights

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/17/cupertino-settles-yimby-housing-lawsuit-agrees-to-builders-remedy-penalty/

#HousePeopleNotCars: In an email, Cupertino Deputy City Manager Tina Kapoor said the city worked with the nonprofits to “reach a resolution that establishes a clear timeline for finalizing the housing element, streamlines environmental review and clarifies rights available under the ‘builder’s remedy’ provisions of the Housing Accountability Act.”

#BuildersRemedy #HousingIsAHumaRight

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/12/126834-upzoning-affordability-impacts-latest-research

#HousePeopleNotCars: Recent studies support the conclusion that broadly-applied upzoning that allows more compact housing types (townhouses, multiplexes, and multi-family) in multimodal neighborhoods, with complementary policies such as reducing #parkingminimums, can increase housing supply, drive down prices, and increase overall #affordability.