Sunday Commentary: Housing Experts Agree – Don’t Blame Migrants for the Housing Crisis
“When housing is scarce, when prices are high and homes are unaffordable for average Americans, who do…
Commentary: Following Up on NIMBYism
Earlier this week, I ran a piece on NIMBYism. I argued that slow growth advocates have lost…
Monday Morning Thoughts: On NIMBYism
Reading the column by Llewellyn King this week (How NIMBYism is strangling America (link)) is a reminder…
Commentary: NIMBY, NIMBY, NIMBY
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor NIMBY, which literally means “not in my backyard,” is a term…
Monday Morning Thoughts: It Comes Down to This – Put the Housing Somewhere Else
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As they say, people in glass houses are…
Sunday Commentary: Housing Is Still Needed, but NIMBY Elements Continue to Make the Situation Worse
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor “California’s population is expected to remain relatively flat through 2060, according to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Education and Awareness a Key to Driving Community Change
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In a thought provoking piece this weekend in the Atlantic, Reihan…
Commentary: Bonta Seeks Expanded Ability to Intervene When Cities Attempt to Block State Housing Laws
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – When state officials sued Huntington Beach, a wealthy…
Guest Commentary: How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’
By Matt Williams In 2018, in the New York Times, Emily Badger wrote a piece called, “How…
Commentary: CEQA Abuse Is a Big Problem for California Housing
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – It is a seminal, perhaps signature, environmental law,…
My View: NIMBY Opposition to Affordable Housing a National Problem
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor When Davis residents are polled—as they were last spring—most of them…
Commentary: But Is There Common Ground To Be Found?
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A comment from last week struck me at…
Commentary: Call It NIMBYISM or Something Else, but Rising Housing Costs Are Taking a Toll on Our Communities
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This spring, when Davis residents were surveyed about community satisfaction, about…
Commentary: The Politics of Land Use Are Weird
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Land use politics defy conventional labels for the most part, and…
Commentary: California with a Warning for ‘NIMBY Cities’
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor We have been warning all week – now the Los Angeles…
Commentary: NIMBYism Rears Its Ugly Head
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I am told that NIMBY is a pejorative. It also seems…
Commentary: City Planning and Affordable Housing, in Reality
by Mark Dempsey The Davis Vanguard’s editor, David Greenwald, recently wrote about The Left’s Dissonance on Housing,…
Commentary: Some Support for SB 9 – But Does It Go Far Enough?
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – In his column for CalMatters, Dan Walters, points…
Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning
A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in…
Sunday Commentary: Is NIMBYISM to Blame for California Income Disparities?
The Economic this week asks the provocative question: why is one of America’s richest states also its…
