2018 Housing Voting 
Policy Chats
MAY 16, 2025
About Denise Davis : Denise Davis was elected in 2018, and is proudly the first openly LGBTQ Council Member in the City of Redlands. Denise has also served as the City of Redlands voting delegate each year for the League of California Cities Annual Conference.
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
AUGUST 2, 2023
State and local policymakers around the country are working to address America’s severe housing shortage, by considering, and implementing, a wide range of policies in the hopes of increasing housing supply. These policies range from substantive revisions to zoning codes to procedural reforms to the land use approval process.
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Partnership for Public Service
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Before the August recess, members of the House and the Senate passed 10 of the 12 required bills out of their respective appropriations committees. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills. However, the bills they drafted are vastly different. What about a continuing resolution?
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. Nearly all of today’s mansion taxes were enacted or expanded between 2018 and 2023. That's 6 months!
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The organization calls itself Seattle’s Creative Industrial Complex, which sounds a bit over the top until you consider that the main complex now covers almost an entire block and houses nearly 150 photographers, printmakers, woodworkers, ceramists, stone carvers, blacksmiths and just about any other creative specialty you can imagine.
The Lowe Down
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties. Rises in inequality do not seem to cause backsliding.
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