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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Comparing Housing Costs in San Francisco and Seattle

Another piece on the dilemma faced by our neighbours down the coast – from John Graham: Here’s an interesting article…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: How did it come to this?

With the arrival of our new chief planner, Gil Kelley, previously from San Francisco, this current piece in The Guardian seems relevant…
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May. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

Bay Area Generational Divide

From San Francisco Business Times: Younger Bay Area residents are more likely to support housing development compared to older residents,…
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May. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Math on Affordability

From Crosscut: Seattle’s diehard “urbanists” can be remarkably single-minded in their advocacy for new and denser housing, but they aren’t…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Emergence of Billionaire’s Bay

From CityLab: Mapping the Incredible Spread of Million-Dollar Homes Across San Francisco .…
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May. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Different city, same issue?

From San Francisco Business Times: More than a third of Bay Area residents recently polled by the Bay Area Councilsaid…
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Apr. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

BARF: Something really radical in San Francisco

. From the New York Times: San Francisco does not have enough places to live. Sonja Trauss, a local activist,…
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Feb. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

More New Housing = Less Displacement: Some Proof

by Dan Ross . The California Legislative Analyst’s Office has released some study results showing that, in the San Francisco…
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Jan. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Signing off for this week

From the Daily Scot: Well, folks … that concludes my week-long look at the stuff that interests me in the…
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Jan. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

Marking a Million Cycling Trips – San Francisco and Vancouver

By way of Michael Alexander:   Ever since the Market Street Bike Counter was installed at Market and 10th Streets in…
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Sep. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: “Sue the Suburbs!”

You can imagine how thrilled Durning was to see this: . It’s an urbanist’s dream come true: The ability to…
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Jul. 31, 2015 / Gordon Price

What Happened When Bicyclists Obeyed Traffic Laws

This: The protest hadn’t even started before the first motorist laid on the horn. Hundreds of cyclists rode through The…
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Jul. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Searching for blame: The Housing Crisis in San Francisco and Post-referendum Vancouver

From Neal Lamontagne: “Many people citing Gabe Metcalf on San Franscisco’s progressive politics + housing costs. I suggest also reading…
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Jul. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: “What’s the Matter with San Francisco”

SPUR president Gabriel Metcalf stirs the pot on CityLab: “The city’s devastating affordability crisis has an unlikely villain—its famed progressive…

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