by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Mar 6, 2022 | Housing News
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers are trying again to get rid of the nation’s only law that lets voters veto public housing projects, a provision added to the state constitution in 1950 to keep Black families out of white neighborhoods. Most everyone in the Capitol...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 28, 2022 | Housing News
When Maricela and her husband migrated to the U.S. to give their daughters more opportunities in life, they didn’t expect housing to be easier for them to attain than their children. They’ve lived here 25 years, and 18 years ago they bought their family’s humble home...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 23, 2022 | Housing News
Hardworking people should be able to afford housing and still have enough money for groceries and basic necessities. Children deserve an opportunity to succeed in school and life as well, which is tied to having a stable home. Housing is a basic human need. To succeed...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 23, 2022 | Housing News
It is not an accident that Sonoma County remains geographically and racially separated, even in its schools, which remain as segregated as pre-civil rights era southern schools. Segregation today is the lasting legacy of federal, state, and local housing policies...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 20, 2022 | Housing News
It’s easier to change where we live than it is to change how we live. Whether it’s Boise or Reno or Portland or Austin, the American housing market is caught in a vicious cycle of broken expectations that operates like a food chain: The sharks flee New York and Los...
by Stephanie Picard Bowen | Feb 13, 2022 | Housing News
Chances are no one ever lost an election by opposing a new government office building. However, the time comes when it stops making economic sense to replace floors, move walls and lease more and more space for public agencies. That time has arrived for Sonoma County,...
