3. articles and research about current development issues
a. CONSTRUCTION, zoning, housing, and affordability:
Blanket Upzoning—A Blunt Instrument—Won't Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis https://www.planningreport.com/2019/03/15/blanket-upzoning-blunt-instrument-wont-solve-affordable-housing-crisis
“Social Housing” is the Way to Go (Berkeleyside) https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/03/24/social-housing-berkeley-ca-city-council
Inside Game: California YIMBY, Scott Wiener, and Big Tech’s Troubling Housing Push https://www.housinghumanright.org/inside-game-california-yimby-scott-wiener-and-big-tech-troubling-housing-push/
Re: Baxter on Broadway/51st & Broadway “130-unit Oakland apartment complex switches hands” (SF Business Times) https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/04/08/130-unit-oakland-apartment-complex-switches-hands.html
7 Reasons Why High Rises Kill Livability (Smart Cities) https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/7-reasons-why-high-rises-kill-livability/561536/
“Oakland isn’t even close to meeting its lofty low-income housing goal - but city is on track to exceed its market-rate housing quota.” (SJ Mercury News) https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/12/oakland-isnt-even-close-to-meeting-its-lofty-low-income-housing-goal/
“Briefing: Oakland passed fee to fund new housing. After three years, it’s produced none” (SF Chronicle) https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Briefing-Three-years-9-million-and-no-14894509.php
”Oakland's approach to solving the climate crisis combines environmental action with equity.” (East Bay Express)
https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/climate-change-and-social-change/Content?oid=27994778Proposed El Cerrito housing with 10 affordable units meets opposition from locals.
Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong’s housing crisis
Oakland dominates SF in housing production (SF Chronicle August 12, 2019)
“How Oakland has become a Renter’s market” (SF Business Times)
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/12/02/how-oakland-has-become-a-renters-market.html“The new mixed-use mega-project on the Lower East Side heals a civic wound with hundreds of affordable apartments.” (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/arts/design/essex-crossing.htmlhttps://www.balticurbanlab.eu/goodpractices/hammarby-sjöstad-one-world’s-most-successful-urban-renewal-districts
”Hammarby Sjöstad - one of the world’s most successful urban renewal districts.”“These two Bay Area startups want to help teachers make money and buy homes” (SF Business Times)
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/12/02/these-two-bay-area-startups-want-to-help-teachers.html“Opinion: Oakland should turn cranes into affordable housing: The city must track, budget and commit developer impact fees to homes for people without six-figure incomes” by Gloria Bruce, ED, EBHO (SJ Mercury News)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/18/opinion-oakland-should-turn-cranes-into-affordable-housing/'There's no way to stop this': Oakland braces for the arrival of tech firm Square (The Guardian US Edition) https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/02/theres-no-way-to-stop-this-oakland-braces-for-the-arrival-of-tech-firm-square
“Timber! SF’s next architectural trend could be eco-friendly buildings made of wood.” https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Timber-SF-s-next-architectural-trend-could-be-14853630.php
“Dutch town able to build no-car neighborhood after earlier investments in public transit” https://www.fastcompany.com/90457158/in-this-new-dutch-neighborhood-there-will-be-1-shared-car-for-every-3-households
Oslo going car free in the city center. Heavy investment in mass transit, pedestrian & bike features. https://www.fastcompany.com/90294948/what-happened-when-oslo-decided-to-make-its-downtown-basically-car-free
b. transportation
Mobilize the Bay (Multi-group organization working to enhance public transportation) https://www.mobilizethebay.org/news?mc_cid=4befc50d32&mc_eid=89f71235ea
How Uber Hopes to Profit From Public Transit Ride-hailing companies see a ‘massive market opportunity’ in replacing bus and subway rides. (NYT May 30, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/opinion/uber-stock.html
What we got wrong about Uber and Lyft: How can we believe that technology will help solve big problems if Uber's great promise didn't pan out?
PDF: here. Link to NYT version here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/technology/what-we-got-wrong-about-uber-and-lyft.html