On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while New York has put a moratorium on hyperscale data centers, “my guess is they’re going to be using what the data centers produce. Okay, so it’s just
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” NPR “Morning Edition” co-host Steve Inskeep stated that there is a contingent of Democrats who “don’t want problems in their cities, problems in their backyards, even if they favor immigration in general.” Host Erin
California law all but ends single family home zoning, but San Francisco leaders want even denser housing in single family home neighborhoods.
Democrat NY Gov. Hochul withdrew a controversial part of the state’s budget that would have allowed people to rent portions of their homes.
Robert Reich, who worked as former President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor, is making an effort to block the imposition of Democrat-style diversity on his upscale suburb.
White liberals like living in safe suburban neighborhoods but claim that Trump’s efforts to preserve them are racist.
Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.
An attempt by California Democrats to increase affordable housing by ending zoning restrictions near urban transit stations was dropped last month due to a revolt by the urban poor whom the bill was ostensibly intended to benefit.
The City of Los Angeles wants to pay property owners to renovate garages and build backyard houses to rent out to the homeless.
City councils are being harassed to approve new apartment developments by residents who are angry about spiking rents and screaming “Yes in My Back Yard” YIMBY) to generate competition to rein in greedy landlords.
A famous property developer who helped develop the Ritz-Carlton developments in Washington and Aspen, Colorado may go to jail because his gargantuan 30,000 square foot Bel-Air, California residence, nicknamed the “Starship Enterprise,” which boasts several floor levels balanced on a hillside and includes a 70-seat IMAX cinema, violated city planning orders.
To buy peace with climate change activists after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that oil fracking does not poison water, President Obama has signed an executive order tripling the size of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, just north of San Francisco. The order bans oil drilling in the area Obama renamed the “Greater” Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The move is merely symbolic, since there are no oil reserves in the area.
After facing slew of criticism from his neighbors in Marin County over plans to expand Skywalker Ranch studio for a third and final time, George Lucas has opted instead to turn his plot of land into subsidized housing, in what many of his neighbors are calling payback in the form of class warfare.
The owners of a 4,680-square-foot home in Arlington, Texas, have been ordered to cease-and-desist holding swingers club parties in the residence. According to NBCDFW and the Arlington Star-Telegram, the owners say they are not embarrassed and will continue to have “like-minded friends” in their home, advertised in their website as “Eutopia.” They will fight the City’s efforts to stop their weekend parties.
