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"He was especially good at getting coalitions put together on a campaign-by-campaign basis," said Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley. "Everything he did was rooted in a value system, a belief system, and that really didn't change over 35 or 40 years."
"I’ll soon be reporting on the brighter future opening up for us here in California, and the legislative roadmap that will help stabilize communities like ours. But we need to put old myths and superstitions to bed first, because we can’t solve problems with the tools that created them," writes Mark Primack. "That was brought home at a housing conference held at London Nelson recently. It was more of a reunion concert than a conference, more golden oldies than fresh tunes. But it made the point."
"Are residents of Santa Cruz County ready to accept the realities of building the housing required by the state of California? Or, to put it another way, are tall apartment buildings the way forward, or will the strong local strain that opposes new developments have the final say on just how this housing will look?" writes the Editorial Board. "This is playing out in the movement to tax local residents to build more affordable housing and/or to give local voters a say on any massive developments that will, in the views of many, change the character of downtown Santa Cruz for the...
The group behind the Measure O campaign, known as Our Downtown, Our Future, organized a conference at the London Nelson Community Center Saturday that examined numerous facets of the affordable housing crisis.
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