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Prop 13, Part 1: California's Property Tax Law is Completely Broken
Proposition 13 is a citizen's initiative passed in California 1978, and to this day it continues to squeeze the state's housing market and primarily benefit older, whiter, longer-term residents at the expense of everyone else.
Prop 13, Part 2: How to Fix California's Broken Property Tax Law
Prop 13 is considered the "third rail" of California politics, but that may be changing. Here's one idea for how to shift the politics and fix many of the worst impacts of the law, while still preserving its protections for low-income homeowners.
San Francisco is Doomed: A Cautionary Tale for Growing U.S. Cities
San Francisco's housing prices have nowhere to go but up. Whether it can stabilize prices or not, it will never again be affordable, and low income residents will continue to leave. Other coastal U.S. cities should take note.
Since 1999, Downtown LA Has Built a Fifth of All Housing In Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles accounts for just 1 percent of the city's geographical area, but 20 percent of its growth over the past 15 years. This is good news for downtown, but bad news for a city that needs more housing everywhere.
Look at the Amount of Space in Seattle Dedicated to Single-Family Housing
This map shows how much of Seattle is dedicated exclusively to single-family housing—and, by omission, how little is actually available for growth. Unfortunately, Seattle is not an outlier.
