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Jeff graduated from San Jose State University in 2011 where he studied Politics and Economics. He spent two years working in financial services before joining a startup focused on urban transportation. Since then he has become increasingly interested in urban economics as well as transportation policy and spends much of his free time reading, writing, and researching.

Tech for Housing: An Experiment in YIMBY Activism

July 21, 2016 By Jeff Fong

Tech for Housing was founded to organize Bay Area tech workers around supply friendly land use reform. Tony Albert, Joey Hiller and myself, all saw an unmet need for tech-centric political outreach and decided to try our luck. And as tech workers ourselves, we had certain ideas around the best ways … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing

Why The Tech Industry Should Care About Housing

July 7, 2016 By Jeff Fong

[Editor's note--this is the inaugural article for a new blog that Jeff launched called Tech For Housing, where tech workers advocate for more housing in the Bay Area.] San Francisco--For decades, every city in the Bay Area has restricted housing production. And for decades, the Bay Area has gone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing

Planning As A Question Of Scale

May 11, 2016 By Jeff Fong

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This post was inspired by Nolan Gray’s “Jane Jacobs’ Hayekian Critique of Urban Planning” and the discussion it recently sparked over at Strong Towns. In Jane Jacob’s Hayekian Critique of Urban Planning, Nolan Gray argues for the futility of trying to master plan something as complex as an entire … [Read more...]

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A response to Interfluidity

December 26, 2015 By Jeff Fong

On Interfluidity, Steve Randy Waldman posted some criticisms of the market urbanist position. The post was interesting, though I took issue with a few specific points. The following are my responses. Regulatory Authority as a Property RightThe customary property rights surrounding homeownership … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Development, Economics, rent control

Neither Public nor Private: Rethinking the Dichotomy

October 27, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Cato recently kicked off an essay series they’re calling “What Can’t Private Governance Do?”. The series questions how far we can take private governance in replacing public institutions. The most recent essay by Mark Lutter questions where to draw the line between private and public in territorial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Buchannon, CATO, Coase, debate, Hayek

San Francisco Turned Sisyphus: Why the City Can’t Fix the Housing Crisis On its Own

September 23, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Housing prices in San Francisco are obscene. And, in large part, that’s because the city hasn’t permitted enough new construction. But that’s not the entire story. For as hard as San Francisco has resisted development, the Peninsula cities have resisted it even more. And in so doing they’ve pushed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Policy, zoning Tagged With: Bay Area, housing, San Francisco, zoning

Urban Density, Mass Transit, and Uber

September 9, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Over at FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver and Rueben Fischer-Baum claim mass transit is Uber’s best friend. They use data from New York to show that Uber is most frequently used in areas with effective mass transit. They explain that residents in areas with poor access to mass transit are more likely … [Read more...]

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Trickle-Down Housing Economics? Laying Reagan’s Ghost to Rest

August 25, 2015 By Jeff Fong

In a recent 48 Hills post, housing activist Peter Cohen aimed a couple rounds of return fire at SPUR's Gabriel Metcalf. The post comes in response to Mr. Metcalf's own article critiquing progressive housing policy. Mr. Cohen bounces around a bit, but he does repeat some frequently used talking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, Policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay Area, California, debate, gentrification, housing crisis, San Francisco

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