Despite what you may have heard

The City Council is not doing anything about affordable housing today, and they are also not considering a plan to fight crime that Dellums has submitted. Instead, they are going to listen to an hour of public speakers saying we need IZ or we don’t need IZ, then sit around and have the same conversation they’ve been having for years, then not do anything about it. Later, Dellums will ask for Measure Y reserve funds that we actually do need to pay police salaries and buy equipment so he can spend it on buying TV advertisements instead: this is is plan to fulfill his completely unrealistic goal of getting to 803 by the end of the year. Any small shred of optimism I had that this was possible was wiped out after getting Chief Tucker’s head-in-the-sand one line answers to a series of questions I asked about the specifics of the recruitment package. Follow-up questions have not been answered at all.

Anyway, I’m tired of writing about this stuff, and busy with other work, so that’s all I’m going to say for now. Maybe if I get my errands done quickly I’ll have more about the recruitment package up before the Council meeting starts, but it’s also possible that I won’t.

Well, that was boring.

IZ rears its ugly head again

Getting the affordable housing discussion back on track

Real problems deserve real policy solutions

Worthless reporting on a worthless report

For-sale affordable housing: who does it benefit?

Time to move on from inclusionary zoning

More lies about inclusionary zoning from the Trib

More on East Bay IZ

A look at affordable housing production in the East Bay

Blue Ribbon Commissioners should be ashamed of themselves

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