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Piedmont residents wrestle with how to add more housing to exclusive enclave
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The Piedmont Racial Equity Campaign suggests that housing could be built in Piedmont Park as the city struggles to find land for development.Paul Kuroda/Special to The Chronicle
Piedmont and Oakland are neighbors, but the cities are very different demographically and in how they approach building housing. With new, much higher housing goals set by the state, small, wealthy Bay Area enclaves like Piedmont are suddenly being asked to plan for a lot more housing, including a lot more affordable homes. And some Piedmont residents want to look to Oakland for help.
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The Bay Area s housing production plummeted in 2020. Here s a look at the trend by county
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1of2A multi-story housing construction is seen next to the public housing projects in the Sunnydale neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. May 3, 2021.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Every county in the Bay Area but one saw a decline from 2019 to 2020 in total housing units produced.Stephen Lam/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Housing production continues to plummet in the Bay Area. For the second year in a row, the number of new units built declined in California overall, with the Bay Area seeing sharper decreases in home-building than the rest of the state.
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PERSPECTIVE-In 2019, I reported in 48 hills that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was using mega-grants to shape California housing law and policy.
CZI gave Enterprise Community Partners $500,000 to draft and then lobby for Assemblymember David Chiu’s AB 1487, the law that authorized the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to become a one-stop regional planning agency overseeing transportation and housing and to levy taxes on the nine-county Bay Area; CZI formally endorsed that bill.
CZI also gave the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley nearly a million dollars: $440,000 for unspecified uses and $500,000 to start a Housing Lab essentially, a development incubator under the aegis of the celebrated public university.