Commentary: We Have the Housing We Need Largely in Place, but We Need to Eliminate the Barriers
Lost in the debate, over things like the definition of homelessness, is a simple fact – we…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Citizens’ Right to Vote Is Only a One-Way Door
One of the biggest issues moving forward in 2020 is going to be the renewal of Measure…
Sunday Commentary: The LRDP Accomplishes Much of What It Needed to Accomplish
For the most part I would argue that, as long as both UC Davis and the city…
Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All
Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that…
Commentary: Student Housing Crisis Not Over Just Yet
Was talking with the developer from Sterling on Monday. Some might have noticed that the land for…
Sunday Commentary: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel on Economic Development, We Already Have the Plan
In the weeks that have followed the June election, the Vanguard has met with pretty much the…
Commentary: Studies Link Housing with Traffic, but in the Opposite Way that You Think
It never fails in Davis, you have a housing project and the opposition will make the argument…
My View: Why Did Measure J Succeed Where Others Failed?
The final results are in and Measure J not only won, but won overwhelmingly by a 60.5…
Last Count Doesn’t Change Election Results
They are not done, but the county has released the results of just under 10,000 new ballots…
Commentary: Is This Really What We Want?
As the community has engaged in a conversation on student housing, some have argued that UC Davis…
Monday Morning Thoughts: A Look At UC Housing and LRDP Post- Nishi
UC Davis has agreed to increase its overall on-campus housing allotment from 28 percent currently to 48…
Sunday Commentary: The Decline of Old School Progressivism in Davis?
In 2016, it was notable that, while opponents of Nishi were able to narrowly defeat the measure,…
My View: Nishi as a Referendum on Measure R
Had Nishi been defeated in the Measure R vote on Tuesday, I believe that this would have…
Analysis: Nishi Wins Big – What Does It Mean?
Even with a lot of ballots still remaining, the chances that the results on Measure J, Nishi,…
Nishi Looks Like It Will Become the First Successful Measure R Project
While it seems unlikely that the same day absentees will impact the outcome – in fact they…
We Talked to Students – They Don’t Agree Nishi Is Unaffordable
In a provocative piece published yesterday in the Vanguard, Rik Keller argued that the market rate units…
An Examination of the Affordability of the Nishi Project/Measure J: Expensive and Overcrowded
By Rik Keller Based on extensive analysis of the Nishi project I did using my long-term professional…
Monday Morning Thoughts: A Long List of Authors with a Long List of Problems with Nishi, but…
The list of authors is long, it’s a list of longtime progressives mixed with some new faces:…
Letter: We Need Nishi
By Maynard Skinner When I was first elected to City Council in 1966, Davis was an entirely…
Sunday Commentary: Analyzing the Council Candidates
In 2010 and 2012, during the heart of the recession, there was no talk about housing and…
