Spanning historical and cultural traditions, these "hidden treasures" help tell stories of the University and well beyond, bringing into focus the disparate parts that help define where we came from, who we are, and who we hope to be.
Facebook’s Housing Echo Chamber Details
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.
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Sacramento s Elmhurst neighborhood is comprised of mostly single-family homes. The City Council has voted on a draft plan to allow fourplexes in all residential areas. Erin Baldassari/KQED
Real estate developer Kevin Khasigian stands in an empty lot near Sacramento s booming downtown. The sound of a jackhammer from a nearby construction site rattles behind him. We re not in any buildings, just an open field with grass and trash cans and parking, he says.
He points to the edges of a future, four-unit apartment building he has planned for the space. Hopefully someday this will provide the opportunity for people to live in an area where they want to and that s really being underutilized.