How does a city allay its affordability quagmire? With one-bedroom median rent breaching past $3,500, would-be and existing residents of San Francisco are faced with an oppressive housing market. Solving such a crisis, which also includes 1.1 million median home prices, requires understanding of … [Read more...]
A White Mulberry’s Final Farewell
I was young, perhaps 10, when my preadolescent eyes witnessed a horror. In the late winter my father had aggressively pruned three Flowering Peach trees in our front yard. One fleeting week each Spring, the trees would bloom in lurid colors of flamingo and hot pink. But not that year. The trees' … [Read more...]