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On the Edge or Off the Cliff
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (609+ words) I've been writing about issues of poverty for four decades. My brief period of television presence came in the 1990s as the sower of "compassionate conservatism," a plant that sprang up quickly only to have a thorn-choked death in the early…...
Planning Commission OKs rezoning two Pleasanton church sites to allow for housing
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (552+ words) The Pleasanton Planning Commission approved a resolution last week that would rezone two churches in the city to allow for the construction of up to 10 housing units in portions of their properties. The churches in question are Trinity Lutheran Church…...
Congress sends landmark housing bill to Trump's desk " 1 week after he said he won't sign it
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (28+ words) House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. , sent the housing package to the White House on Monday, starting the 10-day clock for President Donald Trump to take action...
Cities Won't Solve the Housing Crisis by Blaming Software
1+ week, 1+ day ago (316+ words) The numbers tell the story. Estimates from housing researchers place the nation's housing shortage somewhere between 4 million and 7 million homes. That supply gap has accumulated due to years of underbuilding, restrictive zoning, lengthy permitting processes, and local opposition to new…...
U. S. Senate Passes Landmark Bipartisan Housing Bill, Sends To House
1+ week, 4+ day ago (586+ words) By Th'r'se Boudreaux | The Center Square (Worthy News) " Bipartisan legislation to boost housing supply and home ownership nationally cleared the U. S. Senate in an 85-5 vote Monday evening, the largest housing bill Congress has advanced in decades. The passage of the 21st Century…...
Congress aims to pass housing bill before Fourth of July
2+ week, 1+ day ago (43+ words) The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aiming to boost affordability, passed procedural vote in the Senate 87-8. Final vote is expected Monday....
U. S. Lawmakers Reach Deal On Key Housing Affordability Bill
2+ week, 3+ day ago (615+ words) By Th'r'se Boudreaux | The Center Square (Worthy News) " In a rare instance of congressional unity, the House and Senate reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement over legislation to boost housing supply and home ownership across the country. The Senate overwhelmingly voted…...
Homelessness" Meets the Simulation Theory
4+ week, 1+ day ago (648+ words) Soon the previously quiet, sweet, and leafy Seattle-area suburb where I live will have crazy, fentanyl-addled zombies " aka, the "homeless" " living among us, in a facility of 178 residential units, near schools or outside your front door, courtesy of the virtue-signaling…...