Boo! For local gov't, it seems like every day is Halloween. Yet another chance to scare us all with monsters and ogres who can only be chased away with....more taxes or more density! Our Susie Murillo takes a close look at the costume. An Opp Now exclusive.
Sometimes history changes right in front of us, and we hardly notice it. Opp Now cofounder takes a look at how social and digital media have upended (for better and worse) traditional notions of how ideas and conventional wisdom get created.
Gotta love those subsidies: SJ and other CA cities say they want to increase affordable housing. So why do they implement policies that actually deter naturally occurring affordable housing?
Experts keep saying it would be cheaper and more effective if we could just give Uber vouchers to folks instead of building boondoggle mass transit extensions. They have a point.
The controversial D5 CM tries to censor local critics. It’s not the first time. But local courts remind him of the First Amendment—and deny his call for a restraining order. An Opp Now exclusive.
In which evidence proves, contrary to our local anti-tech left, how AI and new techs can be good news for low income workers. An Opp Now exclusive.
This week's dubious assertion: “We do not have new land in San Jose." That's the principal planner for the City of San Jose, trying to justify the need for more residential upzoning in the city to meet demand. Multiple experts contend that, in fact, there's still plenty of land to develop in SJ.
The Merc blithely continues its practice of tilting its housing coverage in a way that silences counter-narrative facts. Last week, our paper of record's most recent story on rent control initiatives in the Bay Area refused to acknowledge the most salient fact: There's consensus amongst economists and housing experts that rent control actually decreases housing affordability. We daylight what the Merc hides.
