by jpitney | Jan 15, 2026 | California Politics, Health, Homelessness
Ian Bradley at KTVU-TV: Berkeley city leadership issued a public health warning on Monday after animals in a homeless encampment tested positive for leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that can be fatal in dogs and humans. City staff discovered the disease was present...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Education, Environment, Homelessness, Poverty, State Government, Taxes, Transportation
Jim Geraghty at NRO: As I wrote earlier this year, U.S. News and World Report ranks each state on a wide variety of categories. In the most recent assessment, California ranked dead last in opportunity, dead last in affordability, 47th in employment, 47th in energy...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California Evidence and Policy Recommendations Jason M. Ward, Luke Schlake https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html In this report, the authors present analyses of production cost differences among...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing, Regulation
LINDSEY HOLDEN and DUSTIN GARDINER at POLITICO: California Democrats are feeling the weight of the state’s crushing housing crisis in a particularly acute way. Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener and other Democratic lawmakers...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2025 | Homelessness, Housing
Ben Christopher at CalMatters: One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into fonts of new affordable housing. A third would, according to...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2025 | Homelessness
.@jaredpolis: “Get government out of the way. The market and the price of housing is a function of supply and demand. The fact that demand is high in Colorado is wonderful…but we have artificial government-imposed constraints on supply.”...
