![]() ![]() ![]() I have done some projects that were on county land and we always got the votes because it went to a county board of supervisors and their purview is so much larger than say a city where you just have a city council that will respond to a smaller pool of voters.” You know, there was a chapter in this book, the history chapter, about California and kind of tries to use Jerry Brown and Pat Brown as as mirror images of what California land planning was. And she said, “I always knew this, but you really crystallized it for me. ![]() I was talking to Carol Galante, who is now the head of the Turner center for housing innovation at Berkeley, but was the head of Bridge Housing for a long time. Jeff Wood: When I read it, I was like, “Oh my gosh, what did my Grampa do?”ĬD: Yeah, so it turns out like the ability to incorporate cities is actually this like hugely under-thought-about thing. And he impressed upon me that city incorporation was actually this hugely under-covered, under-thought-about aspect of this. Dougherty talks about growing up in San Francisco, his literary inspirations for the book, and the arc of some of the real characters portrayed.įor those of you who prefer to read than listen, an excerpted transcript is provided below the player:Ĭonor Dougherty: I met this scholar in the reporting of all this Michan Connor, you can Google him. This week, we’re joined by journalist Conor Dougherty to talk about his book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. ![]()
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