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Panoramic Interests Saga of Coffer Draining, Carpetbagging and Profiteering Continues . . .
- Reports Cite Chill Between Developer, UC Prof Backer
Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet, 8/6/2004 - David Teece: Big Building Backer, Academic Guru, Political Power Player and a Corporate Tycoon
Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet, 8/6/2004 - Full Report: greenfield.dev_.pdf
- Full Report: http://www.rppi.org/housland.html
- Click here to download the complete, referenced article
Jerry Brown's Contaminated and Crowded Downtown and . . . - Full Report: oldhous.hud.pdf
This report, published by the Urban Land Institute, makes it clear that "smart growth" is about money - not about preserving the greenbelts. 95% of development is still expected to occur over greenfields.
This important report proves that inclusionary zoning drives up the price
of housing in two ways: It forces middle-class buyers to subsidize the poor,
and it discourages new housing and increases the bidding wars for the few
houses that are being built.
by Greg McConnell
This report was published by HUD in February of this year. Older, existing housing is less expensive than newly developed housing. Razing communities for redevelopment makes the area's housing stock less affordable than it had been prior to demolition and replcaement.
Jerry Brown's Contaminated and Crowded Downtown and . . .
Deconstructing the "Affordable Housing" Scam
Written by: Anne Wellington
http://www.awellington@wellingtonvisuals.com
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Unbridled profiteering, future political careers, and environmental loopholes foster public policy in Oakland. While headlines decry budgetary woes, and residents reel under deficit spending, the truth lurks beneath, unreported and festering. Oakland's budget for smart growth and affordable housing development was generously augmented in FY2003. Mayor Brown and the Oakland Redevelopment Agency - doubling as the City Council - set aside millions to entice investment bankers, real estate moguls, and large-scale national development conglomerates to capitalize on an open invitation to exploit this unprecedented opportunity to build with public funding, without environmental constraints, without permitting restrictions, and without limitations on the amount of new construction approval. Held hostage by a self-serving governing body with conflicting public and private interests, Oakland's residents will live with Jerry Brown's despotically imposed legacy long after the politicians, developers and investment bankers are finished speculating, making their fortunes, buying their own homes in the hills or pristine countryside, warehousing the poor within the densely crowded and polluted urban core, and moving on from Oakland to their next capital ventures.
