Share post via this link: permalink. Incredible investigative work by Dorian Hargrove and the NBC7 investigative team laid out how the Mayor’s office and other City of San Diego officials allowed a questionable land deal to go through that generated significant profits for politically connected and influential special interests while […]
Photo courtesy of Flickr User Tristan Loper under a creative commons license. County loses appeal; sixth ruling in close to a decade; CAP offset program is not legal Since 2012, Sierra Club has been challenging the County’s Climate Action Plans as being inadequate to meet the state’s emissions mandates. Sierra Club […]
Share post via this link: permalink. Recent propaganda by the Building Industry Association attempts to assert that the smart growth voter initiative, Measure A, would somehow hinder affordable housing. Measure A reinforces the General Plan, which places emphasis on housing affordability San Diego County’s General Plan, approved in 2011, was […]
Share post via this link: permalink. A storm of controversy arose recently over the San Diego Union-Tribune’s secretive decision to delete a story published on Saturday morning, January 18. The article, published by respected Watchdog author, Jeff McDonald, reported on a recent endorsement by the Climate Action Campaign of two […]
Share post via this link: permalink. Why does it matter if developers exaggerate affordability? Because sprawl developers have convinced decision-makers that we should completely disregard the publicly developed, consensus-based road map to growth, based on a claim that their projects provide the much needed workforce housing that the county needs. […]
Share post via this link: permalink. The lack of transparency and potential conflicts of interest in the development of SANDAGs latest regional growth forecast (RGF) has important implications to the future planning of the region. SANDAG’s committee to develop the Regional Growth Forecast spent almost a year developing a reasonably […]
Missing in the conversation of whether or not regions should invest in transit is how land use and transportation costs are intrinsically linked. Housing burden is what we focus on in housing discussions when the topic of affordability comes into play. A household is considered burdened when they spend more […]
The framework of a home remains standing after the Lilac Fires engulfs a Fallbrook community. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz / Voice of San Diego. Our latest Op Ed in Voice of San Diego responds to the ongoing building industry narrative that downplays the risk of sprawl development in high […]
Our latest Op Ed in Voice of San Diego received a lot of attention, so much so that the Union Tribune saw fit to publish an editorial the very next day defending the latest firetrap development being proposed in the County. The editorial, like much of what is provided by […]
Downtown San Diego, Photo courtesy of Tyrel Johnson Guest contributor, Ginger Hitzke, is a low-income housing developer who owns rental properties, yet still advocates for rent control and tenant protections. Despite polling that shows that Californians (including the 17 million renters) overwhelming support tenant protections, getting a bill passed has […]