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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.

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transportation

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

Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?

June 3, 2015 By Jeff Fong

There’s a proposal to place a moratorium on all market rate construction in the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Needless to say the proposal has sparked a debate. And Dan Ancona’s Putting Market Fundamentalism On Hold is another rock hurled into that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Policy Tagged With: gentrification, San Francisco

Seamless Transit: Thoughts on the new report from SPUR

May 5, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Seamless Transit is the new transportation policy report from SPUR. Main author Ratna Amin proposes integrating the Bay Area’s balkanized transit systems to improve lackluster ridership. Given that the region has 23 separate transit providers--more than any other metropolitan area in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, Policy Tagged With: Bay Area, California, MTR

Why Money for Schools Means No Permits For Housing

April 30, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Housing has a lot going against it in the California. But amidst all the legal, political, and regulatory roadblocks, there’s one law that sneaks by largely unnoticed: Prop 98. Prop 98 guarantees a minimum level of state spending on education each year. Sacramento pools most city, county, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Law, Policy Tagged With: California, housing, property taxes, proposition 98, taxes

The Right to the City

January 29, 2015 By Jeff Fong

This post draws heavily from Tom W. Bell’s “Want to Own a City?”  and would not have been possible without his prior writing and research The "Right to the City" is an old marxist slogan that’s as catchy as it is ill-defined. Neither the phrase's originator Henri Lefebvre, nor David Harvey, a more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Law, Uncategorized Tagged With: gentrification

Filtering: Gentrification in Reverse

January 27, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Co-authored with Anthony Ling, editor at Caos Planejado Gentrification Gentrification is the process through which real estate becomes more valuable and, therefore, more expensive. Rising prices displace older residents in favor of transplants with higher incomes. This shouldn't be confused with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing, planning, Policy Tagged With: affordable housing, development, filtering, gentrification

How to Fix San Francisco’s Housing Market

January 26, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Want to live in San Francisco? No problem, that’ll be $3,000 (a month)--but only if you act fast. In the last two years, the the cost of housing in San Francisco has increased 47% and shows no signs of stopping. Longtime residents find themselves priced out of town, the most vulnerable of whom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, planning, Policy, rent control, sprawl, Zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, Bay Area, gentrification, housing market, housing vouchers, land value tax, San Francisco

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