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Slate: Redlining Has Taken a Huge Toll on Property Values. But Not Everywhere.
Read moreMore than 80 years ago, the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation released its “Residential Security” maps, guides of American cities…
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San Francisco Business Times: Mayor Farrell picks up the housing baton, 650 Cal fills up, homes to replace KFC, and more in this week’s real estate digest
Read moreS.F. Mayor vows to speed up housing construction San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell plans to carry on his predecessor’s push to make…
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CityLab: The Case for Preserving Mobile Homes
Read moreToday, about 40,000 mobile home parks exist across the United States. They were critical to filling housing shortages during World…
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NBC Los Angeles: Group Seeks to Repeal California’s Restrictions on Rent Control
Read moreThe debate over how to get relief from skyrocketing rents in California is likely to go before the voters in…
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Santa Cruz Sentinel: Santa Cruz rent control campaign on track to make ballot, organizers say
Read moreCostanza Rampini is collecting signatures to put the Santa Cruz rent control measure on the fall ballot. The 32-year-old adjunct…
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Mother Jones: Farmworkers Are Living 20 to a House in California’s Bountiful Salinas Valley
Read moreIf you’re making a salad to go along with your dinner tonight, you should probably thank the farmworkers in California’s…
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Vox: There’s no good alternative to building more homes in expensive cities
Read moreThe sweeping land use reform bill introduced recently by California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a San Francisco Democrat, died in…
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Washington Post: Democrats’ Housing Problem
Read moreSince the late 1950s, economists have paid attention to “housing starts” — the number of times in a month that…
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The Sacramento Bee: If the California Legislature can’t compromise on housing, rent control is in our future
Read moreMembers of the Legislature certainly talk a good game about solving the housing crisis, insisting they’re eager to speed up…
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Courthouse News: Majority of LA County Residents Fear Being Priced Out of Homes
Read moreAs the price of housing in California spirals out of reach, more than half of Los Angeles County residents fear…