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One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis.

Let’s start with the ice cream. On June 11 of last year, in the eighth hour of its weekly meeting, the San Francisco Planning Commission heard the case of Garden Creamery v. Matcha n’ More. The owners of the former ice cream shop alleged that the entrepreneurs behind the latter ice cream shop had lied on their planning application to open up in a long-vacant retail space in the city’s Mission District—and asked that the planners review their application. Advertisement So far, not much of a scoop in a city famous for petty bureaucratic skirmishes. But because this was 2020, the typical...

Dive Brief: A majority of U.S. mayors acknowledge the racial disparities in how police treat residents, but are not embracing the radical changes called for in policing, according to the Menino Survey of Mayors published this week by the Boston University’s Initiative on Cities. The survey found that 68% of mayors believe Black people are treated worse by police compared to White people, while 69% believe the protests against police violence last summer were forces for positive change in their cities. Around 60% said police violence is a problem in their communities. Despite those concern...