Some SJ residents are calling for a termination of the creation of new data centers in the city. Economists agree this is an overreaction that causes all sorts of downstream trouble for citizens and local gov't alike. Here are five reasons why, in an Opp Now exclusive
As SJ and other Silicon Valley cities aim to increase public investment/ownership in so-called affordable housing, Steven Malanga at City Journal reminds them that misguided gov't policy is at the core of our housing affordability crisis.
Economists reject rent control as counterproductive gov't meddling. The midpeninsula city agrees and shuts down Measure E.
Even though SJ and other SV cities continue to pursue more rent control measures, the consensus among economists and academics continues to say definitively that these measures hurt affordability and supply.
Local Labor/left continues to scaremonger about AI's impact on jobs. Their claims are not supported by facts.
“The financial oversight promised to Bay Area voters by Measure RTM’s architects has already failed,” says former BART Director Debora Allen, highlighting huge errors in the system's financial review.
Local media leaned on a report from the “independent” nonprofit SPUR to scare voters into supporting the massive, five-county transit tax. But the SF Chronicle finds that even if transit agencies make good on their threats to cut 15 BART stations, (not likely), a so-called “Carmageddon” might make it 90 seconds longer to cross the Bay Bridge. SHIFT Bay Area breaks down the numbers:
