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Housing Affordability is About More Than Housing Costs
Ned Resnikoff
December 2, 2021
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation has issued a new report looking at the pressures that force extremely low-income households in the Bay Area to the edge of homelessness. Policy manager Ned Res...
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Vacancies Are a Red Herring
Ned Resnikoff
November 30, 2021
Policy manager Ned Resnikoff explains why housing people in "all those vacant apartments" is not a viable solution to homelessness. The homelessness rate is highest in the cities where rental vacancy ...
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How The Atlantic's Big Piece on Meth and Homelessness Gets It Wrong
Ned Resnikoff
November 15, 2021
The Atlantic published an article on a new strain of crystal meth said to be “worsening America’s homelessness problem.” Policy manager Ned Resnikoff examines how the piece showcases common misconcept...
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New Piece in the Chronicle
Ned Resnikoff
November 8, 2021
Over the weekend, Ned Resnikoff had an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle considering California’s homelessness crisis in light of its similarities to the climate crisis. One theme in this piece is ...
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News Roundup - November 5
Ned Resnikoff
November 5, 2021
Beginning this week, policy manager Ned Resnikoff will be posting a weekly list of some housing and homelessness news that you might have missed.
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Administrative Burdens
Ned Resnikoff
November 1, 2021
Public policy academics Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan have an interesting brief in Health Affairs on how administrative burdens can harm the health of low-income people. Herd and Moynihan quite literal...