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Build a Stronger Future: Recommendations for local housing response to COVID-19
Today I find myself asking the same questions I last asked 12 years ago. It was May of 2008, and I was the Staff Director for then–Councilmember Sam Liccardo for the City of San Jose. The economy was spiraling out of control and the housing market had crashed. The questions I was asking then are the same ones I find myself grappling with today: Since that … Read more
To Protect Public Health, We Must Address Our Housing Challenges
As we thank our health workers during National Public Health Week, communities across the country continue emergency response to COVID-19. In the Bay Area, residents have been sheltering in place for weeks and grappling with the threat posed by this global pandemic—not just to our health, but to widening existing inequities in our housing and economic … Read more
