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Fountain Valley prides itself on being “a nice place to live,” but the coronavirus pandemic had a way of making times tough on residents and businesses alike.
Still, the community found ways to sprinkle in bits of normalcy like movies in the park and a Halloween parade, as well as helping those in need who faced food insecurity or needed COVID-19 testing.
Across the area, demonstrations were part of 2020. Fountain Valley saw protests for Black Lives Matter and the healthcare industry.
Have a look at some of the top stories in Fountain Valley for 2020:
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For the past five years or so, two words have become commonplace in Sacramento and throughout California: “housing crisis.” Everyone seems to acknowledge that we have one. Most people agree that we should try to address it. Few seem to agree on how. The 2020 legislative session, like several before it, began with promise. Governor Newsom has proclaimed his support for lofty goals in terms of unit production. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to agree that the cost of housing is crippling the state, contributing to the homelessness problem, hindering economic growth, and causing homegrown companies to move or consider moving to lower-cost states. However, with COVID-19 and emergency measures taking center stage, many housing bills ended up on the cutting room floor. One bill that did make it through, AB 2345, is modeled after a successful program already implemented in San Diego that increased housing production in t
Tell us what you want to see in Comstock s magazine: Take our reader feedback survey here.When Davis voters narrowly rejected Measure B this past November, declining to change land-use designations to pave the way for the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus, it might have seemed the end, at last, for that project. What began several years ago as the Mace Ranch Innovation Center (which Comstock’s previously reported on in “Next-Gen Business Park Planned in Davis” in November 2015), on 185 acres near Mace Boulevard, would have included a 2.65-million-square-foot research park and 850 residential units. Project proponents sold it as a chance to keep more UC Davis
Despite Limited Success for Housing Bills in the 2020 Legislative Session, 2021 Should Present Opportunities For Developers Tuesday, December 22, 2020
For the past five years or so, two words have become commonplace in Sacramento and throughout California: “housing crisis.” Everyone seems to acknowledge that we have one. Most people agree that we should try to address it. Few seem to agree on how. The 2020 legislative session, like several before it, began with promise. Governor Newsom has proclaimed his support for lofty goals in terms of unit production. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to agree that the cost of housing is crippling the state, contributing to the homelessness problem, hindering economic growth, and causing homegrown companies to move or consider moving to lower-cost states. However, with COVID-19 and emergency measures taking center stage, many housing bills ended up on the cutting room floor. One bill that did make it through, AB 2345, is mo
John Ebneter
Most leading social scientists have determined that housing inequality in the United States, based on racial lines, has led to a host of social and economic disparities that must be addressed to solve our centuries-old segregation problems. The scientists maintain that until we promote and learn to live together, with our shared experiences and differences, our country will habitually be burdened with the tremendous waste of resources and lives required to facilitate, expand and promote an unjust system of oppression.
Starting with slavery and the elimination of native people, through the 20th century exclusionary housing practices, with todayâs mass incarceration, the ruling class has devised an ever-damning view of and policies toward those of color to ensure wealth and status are kept in the dominant raceâs hands.