Affordable Housing and Government Regulation
by Mark Dempsey Hardly a day passes without some politician or concerned citizen writing an editorial or…
Low Impact Development, High Impact Environmentalism
by Mark Dempsey Most environmentalists do not request the economy halt so no harm would come to…
Guest Commentary: The Consequences of Forcing
by Mark Dempsey Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost recently wrote an editorial (“Forcing Consequences“) explaining her,…
Gov. Newsom Signs SB 330, ‘Housing Crisis Act of 2019’
(From Press Release – Nancy Skinner) – Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senate Bill 330,…
Sacramento City Sues Homeless, Seeks to Ban Them from Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where the Sheriff runs…
City of Sacramento OKs Rent Control – Grassroots Effort Not Happy with Compromise
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Apparently, there’s rent control. And then there’s rent control….
Sunday Commentary: Signs That the Housing Crisis is Getting Worse in Northern California
A PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) study authored by Marisol Cuellar Mejia and Mary Severance, which…
Commentary: Elizabeth Warren Recognizes Zoning Restrictions as a Barrier to Affordable Housing
In a newsletter yesterday from liberal NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff, he noted, “I started off deeply…
Mutual Housing Makes Move to Go Smoke-Free
(From Press Release) – Mutual Housing California, one of the state’s leading nonprofit affordable housing developers, is…
What Does the Left and Right Agree On Nationally? Housing
An article in the American Conservative argues that if there is one area in the next two…
Guest Commentary: Just Say No to Age-Restricted Housing
by Eric Gelber The Vanguard has recently run a number of articles touting the virtues of the…
Measure A Exposes Bay Area Housing Crisis Here in Davis
by Megan Mueller Imagine paying 4.29% interest in monthly housing costs without accumulating any value for the…
Researchers, Farmers and Journalists at UC Davis Symposium ask: Why such “Distaste” for GMOs?
By Leanna Sweha The first annual UC Davis Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy (IFAL) Symposium examined…
Housing Advocates Push Arena Project to More For the Community
Late last week, a group calling themselves Sacramento Coalition for Shared Prosperity filed a Petition for Writ…
