Analysis: How Housing Element Could Provide Housing Needs for Davis
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Drilling down a little further into the Housing Element proposals,…
Commentary: Housing – We Need a Plan, Not Just ‘No’
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The Housing Element contained a warning: “The City does not…
Guest Commentary: Dan Carson’s Comments on the Housing Element Review
(Editor’s Note: The following are comments from Councilmember Dan Carson delivered on Tuesday during the discussion of…
Council Listens to Battle of the Talking Points; Council Leans Toward More Middle Course
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – There were no motions made, no direction taken yet, but…
Sunday Commentary: Council Will Focus Heavily on Three Key Proposals for Housing Element
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – If one good thing came out of the controversial recommendations…
Council to Hold Housing Element Workshop on Tuesday
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The city of Davis announced on Friday that it would…
Sunday Commentary: We Need to Be Talking about the Big Housing Issue in Davis
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I was sitting down this week over coffee with a…
Commentary: Fairness Builds Trust
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Reasonable people can disagree on policy goals. That is the…
Sunday Commentary: Housing Element Probably Gets Out in Front of Public Opinion, but Has Some Very Good Proposals
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The Housing Element Committee last week voted in favor of…
Commentary: The City Could Do More to Make Redevelopment and Infill Viable
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – My columns this week have taken a rather dim view…
Commentary: Should Davis Pursue More Greenfield Development in the Current Housing Element Cycle?
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Yesterday’s column focused on the thoughts of law professor Chris…
Commentary: City Needs to Be More Proactive on Bretton Woods
By David M. Greenwald For better or for worse, the Cannery project has become the local poster…
Re-Imagine LA Coalition Rejects CEO’s 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget, Urges Full Funding of Measure J
By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — The Re-imagine LA Coalition denounced the LA County CEO’s plan allocating…
Los Angeles Rally Honors The Victims of Incarceration and Demands the Closure of Men’s Central Jail
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — On the evening of March 29, coalition leaders and community members…
Vanguard’s Monthly Webinar – New Housing in Davis (Video)
Housing is always a huge topic in the city of Davis—but one thing that has concerned me…
Commentary: Seriously, Where is Davis Planning to Put New Housing?
By David M. Greenwald The question of where the city plans to put new housing is not…
Commentary: How Do People Plan to Finance Their Ideal Community?
By David M. Greenwald In 2018, only 57 percent of the voters supported a parcel tax for…
Commentary: Sometimes Living in a Democracy Means You Don’t Get What You Want
By David M. Greenwald The number one lesson in any democracy is that you have to accept…
Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything
By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments…
Analysis: Not a Huge Amount of Surprises Locally
By David M. Greenwald The last totals came in at 11:42 pm, but it looks like there…