Progressive Silicon Valley-based advocates and politicians are increasingly using racial categories to shut down debate and divide the community. Read below for a running timeline of this disturbing trend.

Peter Coe Verbica, in the political journal Grassroots, shines a light on an often forgotten element of the housing crisis: the precipitous decline in home ownership and the downstream economic, political, and cultural impact of that development.

Historian Richard Rothstein explains how historic government policies undermined the free property market in the name of keeping races apart treated unequally.

Pat Waite of Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility uncovered how the proposed San Jose property transfer tax for affordable housing is really just a General Fund tax that could be spent on virtually anything. 

The government monopoly over public education exerts its power with new state legislation constraining charter schools.

On December 10, the San Jose City Council approved a directional plan which aims to allocate to affordable housing monies raised from a proposed new property transfer tax.  The plan has no guarantees that the monies will actually be spent on housing and has no guardrails to make sure the money isn’t misspent on overpriced new dwellings. Pierluigi Oliverio of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers’ Association explains.

The once-promising local cannabis business in California is reeling as the state increases business taxes on legal marijuana, creating incentives for (again) a thriving black market. The AP reports.

Affordable housing & living. Integrated communities. Booming economy. Increased densification. Scott Beyer of Market Urbanism takes on liberal snobbery about Houston's urban success in Catalyst.

The expected downstream effects of the state's soak-the-wealthy tax schemes are taking effect: 45% decrease from expected revenue gains. The Wall Street Journal reports.

California Globe reports on how subsidizing “affordable” housing simply keeps prices high and uses taxpayers to bail out failed government policies.

Edward Ring of California Policy Center compares why of a family of four in Houston with the same salary is so much better off than their California equivalent.