Kirk Draheim
An Open letter to Gavin Newsom from Fairfax
Dear Governor Newsom, Though we welcome you and your family to Marin County, the spreading boondoggle you have created pertaining to affordable housing in Califor... … more »
Filters
Blog Posts
-
-
National Archives
Paradigm Shift - Part III: How Affordable Housing Need Powered the Modernist Movement
In 1900, about 2.3 million people, two-thirds of New York City’s population, lived in tenement housing, known as “cold-water flats.” The population density per s... … more »
-
Guy
California electricity rates are exorbitant
California electricity rates are the most expensive on the Mainland (yellow in table below). They are far higher than for the US as a whole (green). Source: U.S.... … more »
-
Wikipedia
Money Grows on Trees and Affordable Housing is Easy, Right?
“This is a case of collective amnesia and it’s not a good omen.” Local news is abuzz about the Serenity Apartments in the City of Larkspur. The project is now in... … more »
-
CVP
Paradigm Shift – Part II: Housing Un-affordability May Be Just Beginning
Karl Marx famously wrote, "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." In the mid-1700s, when the Industrial Revolution began, approxi... … more »
-
MMWD
Measuring the cost of a water leak (for MMWD customers)
Introduction For MMWD customers, water leaks can be very expensive. Many MMWD customers first become aware they have a water leak when they observe a huge jump i... … more »
-
getty images
SMART could waste $1 billion over next 20 years
I am not kidding. SMART could really waste $1 billion over the next 20 years if we let it. And, I am talking in real $2024 dollars. SMART only survives because o... … more »
-
Kirk Draheim
Our Hope for the Future of Fairfax
The votes are in and the message is clear. Two new council members have been elected by an overwhelming majority. Trailing behind by a large margin are the three i... … more »
-
SFMTA
The "Nanny State" goes too far
Growing up in New York City, where the art of dodging cars rises to the level of an Olympic sport, the thing that is drilled into every child’s head is, “Look both... … more »
-
California Registrar
The California Props probabilities turned out well
Before boasting let me first reiterate a caveat regarding my probability estimates. They work fine in terms of capturing the "small sample error" uncertainty at th... … more »