As San Jose begins to create standards for building data centers, residents, advocates and researchers warn the city...
Bramson: What Hollywood can teach us about California’s housing crisis
Summer blockbusters are built around a pretty straightforward idea: spend a lot of money to make something people will pay to see. Movies like “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” involve enormous investments because studios believe there is an audience large enough to generate an even larger return. When that calculation works, capital follows. More movies get made. Housing operates under some of the same basic rules. Money flows most readily toward housing that can generate enough revenue to justify the cost of building it. The problem comes when we expect that system to produce something that...
