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Commentary: What Does Workforce and Family Housing Look Like? How Can We Address Affordable Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2020
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Commentary: What Does Workforce and Family Housing Look Like? How Can We Address Affordable Housing?

By David M. Greenwald Pop quiz—if you are a family with two kids, a boy and a girl, how many bedrooms do ...

By David M. Greenwald Pop quiz—if you are a family with two kids, a boy and a girl, how many bedrooms do you need? The answer that most people understand is three. You really are not supposed to hav ...

November 19, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Davis City Council Candidates and the Growth Issue

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2020
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Analysis: Davis City Council Candidates and the Growth Issue

By David Greenwald Wanted to start with some appreciation for the efforts of the Sierra Club—they have ma ...

By David Greenwald Wanted to start with some appreciation for the efforts of the Sierra Club—they have made their candidate and issue recommendations and we can agree or disagree with them, but their ...

October 14, 2020
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Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2020
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Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things l ...

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things like student housing and UC Davis enrollment. All of this of course is subject to change, but ri ...

September 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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UC Davis Completes Phase I of Nation’s Largest Student Housing Project

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|Date: September 17, 2020
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UC Davis Completes Phase I of Nation’s Largest Student Housing Project

by Ryan Lamont The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) opened the first phase of The Green at West ...

by Ryan Lamont The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) opened the first phase of The Green at West Village student housing project, adding more than 1,000 beds to the University’s West Village ...

September 17, 2020
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Commentary: Is University Commons Really Unaffordable?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 27, 2020
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Commentary: Is University Commons Really Unaffordable?

by David M. Greenwald One of the arguments that has been made time and again by opponents of the Universi ...

by David M. Greenwald One of the arguments that has been made time and again by opponents of the University Commons redevelopment project is that the developer's proposal is basically for building una ...

August 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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University Commons Draws Comments from Public and Council

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2020
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University Commons Draws Comments from Public and Council

By David M. Greenwald Usually the second reading of a project—even a controversial one like University Co ...

By David M. Greenwald Usually the second reading of a project—even a controversial one like University Commons—is routine. But University Commons was anything but, drawing an hour's worth of comments ...

August 26, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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No Answers for Students Stuck in Leases This Year

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 25, 2020
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No Answers for Students Stuck in Leases This Year

By David M. Greenwald Students who have taken out leases in the city of Davis still will not have any rec ...

By David M. Greenwald Students who have taken out leases in the city of Davis still will not have any recourse—that is the upshot of a joint statement by the city and university that came out late las ...

August 25, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: We Have a Chance to Close the Housing Gap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 23, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: We Have a Chance to Close the Housing Gap

By David M. Greenwald Measure J has sometimes become a rather convenient target for the housing problems ...

By David M. Greenwald Measure J has sometimes become a rather convenient target for the housing problems in Davis. Leaving aside the fact that housing is an issue statewide, including most places wher ...

August 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Those Believing COVID Will Change College Long Term Aren’t Listening to Students

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2020
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Commentary: Those Believing COVID Will Change College Long Term Aren’t Listening to Students

By David M. Greenwald In Syracuse this week on Wednesday, a large group of first-year students gathered o ...

By David M. Greenwald In Syracuse this week on Wednesday, a large group of first-year students gathered on the Quad late at night, prompting an angry message from the Vice Chancellor warning that “the ...

August 21, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Council Pushes Back on Anti-Student Rhetoric Among the Remarkable Features of University Commons Debate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 20, 2020
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Commentary: Council Pushes Back on Anti-Student Rhetoric Among the Remarkable Features of University Commons Debate

by David M. Greenwald How deep does the pushback against University Commons go, I asked on Tuesday night. ...

by David M. Greenwald How deep does the pushback against University Commons go, I asked on Tuesday night. Pretty deep was the answer—hundreds of emails, door-to-door leaflets in multiple neighborhood ...

August 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: The Voice of Opposition to University Commons Is Inherently Couched in Anti-Student Terms

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 15, 2020
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My View: The Voice of Opposition to University Commons Is Inherently Couched in Anti-Student Terms

The second part of the University Commons item is coming back to the council on Tuesday after a nearly mo ...

The second part of the University Commons item is coming back to the council on Tuesday after a nearly month-long interlude following a whopping 100 public comments in the meeting in July. What is qu ...

August 15, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Troubling Anti-Student Rhetoric in University Commons Debate

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 05, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Troubling Anti-Student Rhetoric in University Commons Debate

By Molly Mermin I spent several hours the night of July 21st tuned into the Davis City Council meeting, l ...

By Molly Mermin I spent several hours the night of July 21st tuned into the Davis City Council meeting, listening to over 100 commenters express their views on the proposed University Commons project. ...

August 05, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Students Unhappy with Rhetoric by Community in Housing Discussions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2020
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Commentary: Students Unhappy with Rhetoric by Community in Housing Discussions

After another round of public comment two weeks ago, Molly Mermin of College Democrats pushed back on Mon ...

After another round of public comment two weeks ago, Molly Mermin of College Democrats pushed back on Monday—posting on Twitter a 90-second montage of public comments from the recent discussion. She t ...

August 04, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Where Is the City Going to Go with University Commons?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 23, 2020
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Commentary: Where Is the City Going to Go with University Commons?

This project really hasn’t gotten as much focus as some others over the years—Nishi, Trackside, the varyi ...

This project really hasn’t gotten as much focus as some others over the years—Nishi, Trackside, the varying versions of DISC—but University Commons may end up being the most polarized of them all. The ...

July 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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University Commons Discussion Draws a Boatload of Comments, Continued to August 18

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 22, 2020
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University Commons Discussion Draws a Boatload of Comments, Continued to August 18

As expected, the University Commons Redevelopment project drew a huge amount of public comments—which ran ...

As expected, the University Commons Redevelopment project drew a huge amount of public comments—which ran roughly two to one in favor of the project. But the council expressed serious concerns, and wi ...

July 22, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: COVID-19 Brings Another Set of Problems – Student Housing

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 22, 2020
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Commentary: COVID-19 Brings Another Set of Problems – Student Housing

By Elizabeth Cho “Hi! I saw your post about looking for an apartment and if you’re still looking and you’ ...

By Elizabeth Cho “Hi! I saw your post about looking for an apartment and if you’re still looking and you’re interested, I have an entire apartment that I need 4 people to take over for this year! It c ...

July 22, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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Commentary: The U-Mall is Dying – How Can We Save It?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2020
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Commentary: The U-Mall is Dying – How Can We Save It?

In all of this discussion over University Commons, there is not sufficient recognition of a very simple f ...

In all of this discussion over University Commons, there is not sufficient recognition of a very simple fact—the University Mall is dying. It has actually been dying for a very long period of time, b ...

July 21, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Equity Is Needed in Decision Making Process

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 20, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Equity Is Needed in Decision Making Process

by Mary Martinez My name is, Maria Martinez, and am the External Vice President of ASUCD. Davis is in a d ...

by Mary Martinez My name is, Maria Martinez, and am the External Vice President of ASUCD. Davis is in a desperate housing shortage, making it difficult for students to afford college, find a safe,comf ...

July 20, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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After Unanimous Rejection by Planning Commission, University Commons Project Goes to Council

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2020
| (32) Comments

After Unanimous Rejection by Planning Commission, University Commons Project Goes to Council

It has been a month and a half since the Planning Commission rejected the proposed University Commons Red ...

It has been a month and a half since the Planning Commission rejected the proposed University Commons Redevelopment Project by a unanimous 7-0 vote. The proposed project will demolish the majority of ...

July 19, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Why the City Council Will Have to Approve University Commons

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Why the City Council Will Have to Approve University Commons

Pretty much everything went wrong last week at the Planning Commission, but ultimately while there are ve ...

Pretty much everything went wrong last week at the Planning Commission, but ultimately while there are very likely to be some major changes to the University Commons project, the council is going to h ...

June 07, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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