What It Really Costs to Live in San Francisco
Is living in San Francisco unreasonable? That depends on who and how you ask.
View ArticleSan Fran's Progressive Policies Are Hurting the Poor
In recent years, a contradiction has unfolded in San Francisco. On the one hand, the city continues to practice progressive economic policies. But rather than helping its poor and middle-class—as such...
View ArticleSan Francisco Bans Cars From Turning
There are all sorts of things a city can do in the service of safer streets, from reducing speed limits to making room for bike lanes to handing out gift cards to law-abiding drivers. San Francisco...
View ArticleStench and the City: SF's Summer of Urine
As the city gets smellier and scarier, I wonder, how many suckers can one city find to pay that kind of money in a neighborhood so clearly on the edge?
View ArticleHow to Fix San Francisco
The San Francisco Bay Area—stretching from San Jose and Silicon Valley in the south to Oakland, Berkeley, and the city of San Francisco in the north—is the world’s foremost tech hub. But the city and...
View ArticleWage Hikes Will Put Squeeze on Rural Poor
Big states like California and New York combine a large and politically powerful urban population with a much poorer rural population that cannot afford the kinds of government interventions that the...
View ArticleHow a $15 Minimum Wage Could Change California
California is much bigger and more diverse than a single city. The real question is not what is going to happen in San Francisco or Los Angeles, whose robust economies can likely handle higher wages...
View ArticleCan Portland Avoid San Francisco's Mistake?
It’s all the newcomers, some say. They’re driving prices up and they’re pushing long-time residents out. They’re why Portland was determined by Governing magazine to be the place in the country with...
View ArticleCatching Up Is Hard To Do
Looking at Los Angeles and San Francisco, two successful California cities in 1970 whose fortunes have since diverged radically, The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies tries to answer an old question:...
View ArticleSan Francisco's Tech Tax Is Not a Solution to Homelessness
If higher taxes were the cure for homelessness, California — and San Francisco, in particular — would have solved its homeless problem years ago. In reality, San Francisco — one of the highest tax...
View ArticleShocked by Segregation
The headline was familiar, and predictable: “U.S.’s most economically segregated schools aren’t where you might expect.” Maybe not where you expect if you’re a Cambridge-dwelling headline writer for...
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