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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 08, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a s ...

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a state worker and a therapist, could afford to buy a house and raise children here. This is no l ...

May 08, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Letter: Taormino Responds to Vanguard Comments

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 30, 2021
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Letter: Taormino Responds to Vanguard Comments

By David Taormino Only in Davis are you guilty of a “crime” (breaking a promise) before you commit it. N ...

By David Taormino Only in Davis are you guilty of a “crime” (breaking a promise) before you commit it. Not only are you presumed guilty of yet to occur offense; there is talk of your punishment. No ...

April 30, 2021
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Vanguard’s Monthly Webinar – New Housing in Davis (Video)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 31, 2021
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Vanguard’s Monthly Webinar – New Housing in Davis (Video)

Housing is always a huge topic in the city of Davis—but one thing that has concerned me of late is that w ...

Housing is always a huge topic in the city of Davis—but one thing that has concerned me of late is that we have not really had any sort of public engagement on the issue of the housing element. And wh ...

March 31, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: One Study Finds Davis Among the 10 Least Affordable Small Cities in the Nation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 16, 2021
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Commentary: One Study Finds Davis Among the 10 Least Affordable Small Cities in the Nation

By David M. Greenwald While the data is more difficult to parse then you might think, in part because the ...

By David M. Greenwald While the data is more difficult to parse then you might think, in part because the huge percentage of students who live in Davis likely drag down the median income, the cost of ...

March 16, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Great Risk, Little Reward: Berkeley’s RAs Keep Housing Units Afloat Amid Pandemic

Posted by Koda Slingluff
|Date: March 12, 2021
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Great Risk, Little Reward: Berkeley’s RAs Keep Housing Units Afloat Amid Pandemic

By Meenu Pamula Berkeley— Dissatisfaction is not uncommon amongst UC Berkeley’s Resident Assistants (RA ...

By Meenu Pamula Berkeley— Dissatisfaction is not uncommon amongst UC Berkeley’s Resident Assistants (RAs), but in light of the coronavirus pandemic, mistreatment has become an even more present conc ...

March 12, 2021
| by Koda Slingluff

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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Canary in the Coal Mine – Declining Enrollment

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 08, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Canary in the Coal Mine – Declining Enrollment

by David M. Greenwald For several years I have been warning that without a change to how the community gr ...

by David M. Greenwald For several years I have been warning that without a change to how the community grows going forward, we are facing a loss of quality of life and it will be harder to maintain ou ...

March 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Aggie Square Legal Battle Reminds Us It Is Not Just Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 22, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Aggie Square Legal Battle Reminds Us It Is Not Just Davis

By David M. Greenwald UC Davis won’t say it publicly, but then again they don’t have to. They went to Sa ...

By David M. Greenwald UC Davis won’t say it publicly, but then again they don’t have to. They went to Sacramento to build Aggie Square in large part because they knew how difficult it would be to do ...

February 22, 2021
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Senator Wiener Introduces Four Bills to Spur Housing Production and Address California Housing Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 19, 2021
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Senator Wiener Introduces Four Bills to Spur Housing Production and Address California Housing Crisis

By David M. Greenwald As California’s Housing Crisis continues, Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco has ...

By David M. Greenwald As California’s Housing Crisis continues, Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco has introduced four bills as part of the Senator’s 2021 housing package. The Senator has yet to be ...

February 19, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: California Housing Crisis and the Out Migration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 16, 2021
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Commentary: California Housing Crisis and the Out Migration

By David M. Greenwald This year people have been shrugging off the housing crisis. I get it, COVID, econ ...

By David M. Greenwald This year people have been shrugging off the housing crisis. I get it, COVID, economic downtown, civil rights have definitely, if not muddied the water, made it far more complic ...

February 16, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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California Capitol Watch: New CEQA Exemptions for Designated Transit-Related Projects

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 06, 2021
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California Capitol Watch: New CEQA Exemptions for Designated Transit-Related Projects

By Eric Gelber This installment of California Capitol Watch discusses SB 288 (Wiener), which took effect ...

By Eric Gelber This installment of California Capitol Watch discusses SB 288 (Wiener), which took effect on January 1st and creates new CEQA exemptions for certain classes of qualifying transit-relate ...

February 06, 2021
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President Biden’s ‘Memorandum On Fair Housing’ Takes Center Stage

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: January 29, 2021
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President Biden’s ‘Memorandum On Fair Housing’ Takes Center Stage

By Carlin Ross WASHINGTON D.C. – President Joe Biden Wednesday signed executive actions in an attempt t ...

By Carlin Ross WASHINGTON D.C. – President Joe Biden Wednesday signed executive actions in an attempt to address racial injustices involved in housing, private prisons, and the treatment of Asian an ...

January 29, 2021
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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Monday Morning Thoughts: California’s Housing Crisis Could Morph After Pandemic, but Probably Won’t Go Away

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: California’s Housing Crisis Could Morph After Pandemic, but Probably Won’t Go Away

By David M. Greenwald A year ago with housing prices rising and a shortage of new housing, California’s h ...

By David M. Greenwald A year ago with housing prices rising and a shortage of new housing, California’s housing crisis was the biggest problem facing the state. A year later, however, with the COVID ...

January 25, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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California Capitol Watch: Introduction and Proposed Housing Bills

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 17, 2021
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California Capitol Watch: Introduction and Proposed Housing Bills

By Eric Gelber This is the first of periodic articles (tentatively titled California Capitol Watch) I int ...

By Eric Gelber This is the first of periodic articles (tentatively titled California Capitol Watch) I intend to write for the Vanguard that will focus on the California Legislature. The articles will ...

January 17, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: What Does the Housing Market Have in Store for Us

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2021
| (38) Comments

Commentary: What Does the Housing Market Have in Store for Us

By David M. Greenwald The big news statewide has been a migration of some out of the state. However, on ...

By David M. Greenwald The big news statewide has been a migration of some out of the state. However, on a regional level, according to new data, the Sacramento region remains hot, fueled by people le ...

January 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Student Opinion: As COVID-19 Rises, So Do Unoccupied Homes

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: December 08, 2020
| (13) Comments

Student Opinion: As COVID-19 Rises, So Do Unoccupied Homes

By Jacob Vito One of San Francisco’s most unique and appealing traits has long been its city architecture ...

By Jacob Vito One of San Francisco’s most unique and appealing traits has long been its city architecture’s eclectic nature. 100-year-old wooden townhouses can live mere blocks away from towering high ...

December 08, 2020
| by Julietta Bisharyan

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Sunday Commentary: Just Can’t Get Cannery Right – And That Hurts Everything Else

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 15, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Just Can’t Get Cannery Right – And That Hurts Everything Else

By David M. Greenwald At some point if the city wants to lay its cards on the table, it might consider ha ...

By David M. Greenwald At some point if the city wants to lay its cards on the table, it might consider having a consultant or perhaps even staff assess what went wrong with the Cannery. Because, as i ...

November 15, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Lots of Questions and Few Answers for Davis’ Future

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2020
| (55) Comments

Commentary: Lots of Questions and Few Answers for Davis’ Future

By David M. Greenwald There is perhaps some chance that Measure B—DISC, the Davis Innovation & Sustai ...

By David M. Greenwald There is perhaps some chance that Measure B—DISC, the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus—can make a comeback, but at this point those chances are fleeting, as it trails ...

November 10, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 05, 2020
| (19) Comments

Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything

By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments start out wit ...

By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments start out with between 35 and 40 percent of the people automatically opposed to the project and they are pre ...

November 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Looking Ahead to the Housing Element Update Process

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 01, 2020
| (61) Comments

Guest Commentary: Looking Ahead to the Housing Element Update Process

By Gloria Partida With the number of issues, a City faces, writing a monthly column should be easy. Howev ...

By Gloria Partida With the number of issues, a City faces, writing a monthly column should be easy. However, the abundance of choices and the speed with which one issue rises and wanes makes catching ...

November 01, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: One Alternative Way Forward on Measure J

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 01, 2020
| (30) Comments

Commentary: One Alternative Way Forward on Measure J

By David M. Greenwald My expectation is that Measure J is likely to pass the electorate with at least 70 ...

By David M. Greenwald My expectation is that Measure J is likely to pass the electorate with at least 70 percent of the vote next month. I have long supported the renewal of Measure J but I was disap ...

October 01, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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