In 2011 I filed a lawsuit against the City of Garden Grove in Orange County, CA on behalf of permanent residents of a mobile home/RV park and a local organizing nonprofit for removing over 100 affordable homes from the City's housing stock and failing to comply with State laws governing relocation, replacing affordable housing, and fair housing practices. This case - and the families I got to know over the next two years - really opened my eyes to what our affordable housing

The housing crisis is global and Auckland is in the throws of its own housing bubble. In "The Mess We're In: Auckland's Housing Bubble from a Construction Sector Perspective," AUT (Auckland University of Technology) Professor John Tookey provides an insider perspective on what this means for Auckland (and Aotearoa/NZ at large) and where so many go wrong in trying to solve housing challenges. Prof. Tookey is an expert on the construction industry, familiar with the economic an

It's been 4 years since the Latino Cultural District (LCD) was formally recognized by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I was fortunate enough to participate in the early planning stages of Calle 24 and the LCD, culminating in this report back in 2014. However, as this recent San Francisco Chronicle article points out - gentrification in the Mission District has not let up and remains an ongoing struggle for this historically Latino community. "According to the mayor’s

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) continues to make front page news across the nation and the world. Digging up an old - but still highly relevant - publication I contributed to 6 years ago, "Getting There Together: Tools to Advocate for Inclusive Development Near Transit." (download below) TOD is just as, if not more, of a hot topic in city development today than it was back in 2012. In Seattle, the California Legislature, and even in Auckland NZ, communities and decisionma