City Journal Empty Words on Homelessness city-journal.org - Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal. California governor Gavin Newsom devoted almost his entire State of the State address to homelessness, though observers who follow the issue …
City Journal Skid Row’s Addiction Epidemic city-journal.org - Christopher F. Rufo Brian Anderson: Hello again everyone, this is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Joining me on the show today is Christopher Rufo. Chris is …
City JournalSkid Row The Moral Crisis of Skid Row city-journal.org - Christopher F. Rufo Los Angeles’s addiction epidemic is creating a permanent underclass, cut off from the rest of the city.
City JournalCalifornia A California-style Brexit city-journal.org - Erica Sandberg is a widely published consumer-finance reporter based in San Francisco and the author of Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families. As a community advocate, she focuses on homelessness and crime and safety issues. Are California Democrats—responsible for the state’s new anti-gig-worker law, AB5—so out of touch that they’re not aware of the growing anger of …
City JournalLyft AB5 Backfire city-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last year California passed a new law, known generally as AB5, designed to classify independent contractors as full employees, a status that brings …
City JournalCalifornia Calculating the Californication city-journal.org - Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal, the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer. Beset by high housing costs, crippling taxes, astronomical gas prices, wildfires, and rolling blackouts, Californians are heading for the exits. …
City JournalHousing California Says No to the Future city-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, California’s Senate voted down SB50, a bill introduced by State Senator Scott Weiner to address the housing-affordability crisis. The bill …
City JournalLyft Taking the Freedom Out of Freelancing city-journal.org - Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. As I headed to LAX after a recent trip to Los Angeles, my Lyft driver insisted that we stop at In-N-Out Burger so that I could enjoy one last …
City JournalHousing Growing Cities Up city-journal.org - Christopher S. Elmendorf is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. Earlier this month, California state senator Scott Wiener began the third year of his push for a state law to override local zoning and authorize …
City Journal California’s Real “Train to Nowhere” city-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A major feature of the urban renaissance of the past three decades has been the rise of “light rail” transit systems. After major federal sponsorship …
City Journal California Preening city-journal.org - Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His latest book is The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. His book on the return to feudalism will be released next year. “We are the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta,” declared …
City Journal Directed to Diversify city-journal.org - Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal, the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer. In September 2018, then-California governor Jerry Brown signed legislation mandating that the board of directors of every publicly held company in …
City Journal If You Let Them, They Will Build city-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin is a Marine veteran who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. California’s housing crisis, particularly in the Bay Area, is notorious and well covered, with news stories chronicling homeless encampments, “pod” …
City Journal Bohemia’s Strange Trip city-journal.org - Judith Miller is a City Journal contributing editor and author of The Story: A Reporter’s Journey. San Francisco, that most forward-looking of cities, has looked backward this summer. Half a century after an estimated 100,000 young Americans …
City JournalCalifornia California’s Spending Boom Masks a Spate of Problems The Wall Street Journal. - Steven MalangaPoliticians are rolling in tax revenue, but they can’t seem to solve basic issues like housing and energy. This should be the best of times in California. A vigorous national economy is providing record
City Journal Opinion: Modern ‘asylums’ would be a compassionate answer for mentally ill homeless people Los Angeles Times - Howard HusockThe very term “homelessness,” as used to describe the problem that has changed the face of downtown Los Angeles and other West Coast cities, implies that there’s a single solution: housing. That thinking
City Journal No Californians Need Apply city-journal.org - Troy Senik In Idaho, resentment toward the Golden State diaspora grows.
City Journal San Francisco’s New Anti-Police D.A. city-journal.org - Erica Sandberg A city increasingly overrun by crime and squalor elects decriminalization advocate Chesa Boudin as district attorney.
City JournalIcon version of the Flipboard logo San Francisco’s New Anti-Police D.A. city-journal.org - Erica Sandberg is a widely published consumer-finance reporter based in San Francisco and the author of Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families. As a community advocate, she focuses on homelessness and crime and safety issues. On the eve of last week’s municipal election in San Francisco, a speaker at an event for Chesa Boudin—the eventual winner in the race for district …
City Journal The “Supermarket Sweep” city-journal.org - Christopher F. Rufo Addiction and decriminalization fuel a West Coast shoplifting boom.
City Journal Gigabytes of Virtue-Signaling city-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald Eager to win praise from homeless advocates, guilt-ridden tech CEOs pony up with donations—and disparage capitalism.
City Journal California Goes Dark city-journal.org - James B. Meigs Multiple factors have led to planned electricity blackouts across the Golden State.
City Journal San Francisco’s False Solution city-journal.org - Erica Sandberg By doubling its homeless-services budget, the city is treating the symptom, not the problem.
City JournalIcon version of the Flipboard logo San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis city-journal.org Heather Mac Donald joins Seth Barron to discuss homelessness on the streets of San Francisco and the city’s wrongheaded attempts to solve the …
City JournalDonald Trump San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless city-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.
City Journal California’s Labor of Love city-journal.org - Steven Malanga Sacramento tries to save the declining union movement with taxpayer money.
City Journal And You, New York? city-journal.org - Eric Kober is a retired New York City planner and currently Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. California and New York, in dealing with serious housing shortages affecting their largest metropolitan regions, offer a surprising study in …
City Journal A Conspiracy of Entitled Incumbents city-journal.org - Howard Husock, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of the new book, Who Killed Civil Society: The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms. Less than a year after California voters rejected rent control in a statewide ballot proposition, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation …
