Diversity & Equity
Marin IJ: Marin City Housing Developer Files Tam Valley Plan to Build 32 Units Instead of County’s Hopes for a Proposal to Split the Housing Between Marin City and Tam Valley
“The designs did not reflect the site constraints,” Kalish told the Marin IJ. “It literally did not look like a design that had been produced for that site.” Kalish said that despite the risk of flooding at the location, the drawings showed windows placed at ground level. “Even the tree selections, when I checked them, none of them could have tolerated living there because their roots wouldn’t tolerate brackish water,” she said.
Read MoreMarin Economic Forum to Shut Down, With a County Supervisor Calling It ‘Mission Accomplished’
Over the last eight years, MEF has received an average of more than $177,000 per year from the county. For the fiscal year that began in July, however, the county had budgeted only $100,000 for the organization. Lucan said the allocation was reduced because de la Rosa would be carrying some of the load. Nevertheless, Lucan said he considers MEF a “big success.”
Read MoreMarin Voice From Ace Thelin, of Forest Knolls: Sadly, Rampant Homelessness a Sign That Capitalism Is Working as Intended
Capitalism is thriving because morality and common decency is absent from the policies imposed by the capitalist class. The way I see it, high demand (lots of people) and low supply (not enough available housing) will always create fierce competition and drive up the cost of rent and mortgage payments. When adequate housing is guaranteed, the rental market will crumble. People will no longer sign a contract in which half or a third of their income goes to rent because they will no longer have the fear of being homeless.
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Read More‘Unprecedented’ Housing Project at Seminary in Strawberry Moves Forward Amid Neighbor Pushback
Famed architect Mark Cavagnero, who designed the project, did not return calls seeking comment, but he told the Chronicle in 2019 that the fight has “been a big, big, big taste of NIMBYism the likes of which I’ve never experienced.” “There is no property anywhere near this size anywhere in southern Marin, if not all of Marin, that would be available and zoned for housing,” Cavagnero said at the time. “This is important not only for the housing we can build — workforce housing, affordable housing, senior housing — but also on an exemplary basis.”
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Read MoreSF Chronicle: Here are 21 New Laws that Californians Must Start Following in 2025
“For the past six years, through boom, bust and pandemic, California’s Legislature has ended each session with a blitz of new laws that aim to make housing more plentiful and affordable.
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Read MoreCalifornia Voice From Bob Stonebrook Via CalMatters: The best way to prepare for Trump is by fixing our state government
In 1969, Peter Drucker, the influential management consultant, author and educator, noted in the now-defunct Public Interest journal that the greatest factor in our “disenchantment” with government is that government has not performed. His remedy holds just as true today. Improvement in government requires, “the clear definition of the results a policy is expected to produce, and the ruthless examination of results against these expectations. This, in turn, demands that we spell out in considerable detail what results are expected rather than content ourselves with promises and manifestos.” Overcoming disenchantment requires achieving results.
Read MoreNational Politics Got You Down? Between the Outstanding Marin IJ and Lots of Great Bay Area News Orgs, as Well as Our Little Enjoy Mill Valley Engine That Could – This Is Curated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of November 24
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