Housing Crisis Caused by Much More than Zoning

USC demographer professor of planning Dowell Myers does not dispute these phenomena. But, according to a newly published study “Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery,” they are actually tangential to deeper economic causes that have led to what he describes as not just a local housing crisis but, indeed, a national housing crisis

2024 Year-in-Review

Here’s how I began last year’s installment of this post: “If California gets any more rain, we might all wash into the ocean.” How fortunes have changed.  As I regroup from the tumult of the …

Good Riddance to Chevron

In Chevron’s absence, California can pursue sustainability goals–locally and globally–even more enthusiastically. It can speed the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy (which, on a good day, sometimes accounts for more than 100% of the state’s energy).