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People Don't Understand Affordability Requirements
Mandating low-income housing in new developments sounds great but without subsidies, it's a flop. We've known this for decades.
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Darrell Owens
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It Shouldn't Have Been This Hard
My reflection on the left-liberal (in-)fighting that went on during the rise of the YIMBY movement as I leave the advocacy world
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Darrell Owens
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February 2024

Is The Rent Killing Sex?
I keep running across an interesting argument by certain urbanites about sex and housing struggles, but is it true?
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Darrell Owens
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Berkeley's Upzoning Would Be Among Nation's Largest
A proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods.
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Darrell Owens
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From the Bib to the Bip
How kids in Oakland get into the robbery and property crime business.
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Darrell Owens
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January 2024

The Woes of Oakland: Homelessness
Oakland’s not gotten great press coverage lately. First, a food-poisoned TikTok foodie went viral saying that city’s homelessness crisis indicated…
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Darrell Owens
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All-In For Guerrilla Urbanism
Less Talk; More Action.
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Darrell Owens
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December 2023

Greyhound is the Future
The death of Greyhound is not a Greyhound problem; it's a bus problem.
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Darrell Owens
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Progressives Need To Get Real on Housing
I Love You, But . . . Some of You Are Not Serious People.
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Darrell Owens
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The Easiest Way To Become Poor
The immorality of ability and age as a sentence to eternal poverty in the world's largest economy.
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Darrell Owens
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November 2023

San Francisco: 40 Years of Failure
Trying the same thing over and over, yet expecting a different result.
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Darrell Owens
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Why I Used To Be a NIMBY
Reflections on how to change people's minds in the housing debate.
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Darrell Owens
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