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If you think of gentrification as coffee shops and bike lanes then you don't understand gentrification at all. It's about what's inside, not outside.
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Reflections on the recent burglaries, what types of crime capture our attention and how to actually prevent crime versus creating more crime.
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We should want more/less vacancies depending on the kind of vacancies we're talking about but nobody likes to specify
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I use the Census to track how development and population growth interacts with Black displacement in Oakland and where Black people are going
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When you're willing to kill off a generation of public education at the University of California to fulfill your Peter Pan syndrome.
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Yo, wait until the results come out before jumping to conclusions. Also it's okay to say the "A-word."
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It's not a coincidence that these shootings are constantly committed by 18-24 year old boys.
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Of course banning cars isn't a winning message in the U.S., that's why you don't ban the car, you just ban what cars use.
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I use Census data from 1940 to 2020 and historical research to tell the history of Black people in Berkeley, California and the origins of zoning…
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I take on the endless debate between transit activists about which one matters more.
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Follow up to my previous article on the absurdity of nonprofit positions on parking by going into depth about the various degrees of the NPIC.
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The history of displacement and housing politics in Berkeley with census data.
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