With a critical deadline this month to submit updated housing elements, California cities are in a state of flux. Here’s a look at how the East Bay’s suburban communities are
Is government-run social housing the solution to the Bay Area s affordability crisis?
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An aerial view of the North Berkeley BART station and parking lot, a planned site for a future social housing which would create units in buildings for people of varying incomes low income, middle income and wealthier and have a pathway to home ownership.Paul Kuroda/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The green patch of Schlage Lock land at Bayshore and Leland, south of San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood in South San Francisco.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A bicyclist rides near the North Berkeley BART parking lot, a planned site of a future social housing which will create units in buildings for people of varying incomes.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
To meet the demands of climate action, California must significantly shift trips away from private automobiles to less carbon-intensive modes of transportation, including public transit. Investment in public transit is hampered by high costs and lack of federal investment. Regressive consumption taxes instituted by local and state governments to fund public transit investment are approaching legal and political limits. An untapped source of revenue for public transit is land values. Recent studies have shown that private land value uplift associated with rail investment in Fremont, California and Manhattan, New York were multiple times the cost of the transit improvements. This document proposes ways in which California transit operators could re-capture the land value uplift in commercial and residential property to re-invest in public transit expansion and service.