2. 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

• UCLA’s Michael Storper on Squaring Urbanism & Density

• “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=27994778

• Proposed El Cerrito housing with 10 affordable units meets opposition from locals.

• Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong’s housing crisis

• “Dorm Living for Professionals Comes to San Francisco

• 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.html

• https://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