December 7, 2016 News & Commentary·Politics SF Homeless Project: Can Oakland’s Compassionate Communities program serve as a model for others? If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then some of our policymakers may Read More
March 18, 2015 Commentary·News & Commentary Those “Tiny Houses” in West Oakland: Artist Gregory Kloehn’s Big Idea to Impact Homelessness In 2009 Oakland artist Gregory Kloehn kicked off the Dumpster Home project—an exercise in making small housing structures out of large garbage containers and Read More
July 1, 2013 Crime & Public Safety·News & Commentary·Planning & Development “Camp CalTrans” latest PR Fiasco for maligned agency The much maligned construction of the Bay Bridge ($5 billion over budget and a decade late) has endured one folly after another and chipped Read More