People are working from home, resulting in one in five offices in San Francisco sitting empty. The Bay Area also has a housing crisis. Which has more and more people, including Governor Gavin Newsom, thinking it's time to look at converting some of that disused office space into housing.
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2020, Streetsblog SF continues its interview series with local and national experts to lay the groundwork for the best possible transit mega-measure for 2022
Adopting a Vision Zero policy is only the first step. San Jose is only now embarking on investing in infrastructure, data, and collaboration to reach the goals of no traffic fatalities.
“Why wait five or six years before doing anything with the space?” was the question Brad Leibin, an architect at David Baker Architects, was asked to help solve about an affordable housing project planned for West Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue at 34th Street. “So we started to make a difference on that streets-cape immediately … […]