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Three great reported essays on the inter generational conflict over housing and active transportation, particularly in Northern California: First, a Berkeley-raised writer’s exploration of his parents’ generation’s complicated feelings about the proposed apartments and the Hopkins bike lane:

nytimes.comA Tale of Paradise, Parking Lots and My Mother’s Berkeley Backyard (Gift Article)Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.

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Second, @jerusalem.bsky.social on the environmentalist movement’s generational conflict over urban housing and other climate infrastructure. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

theatlantic.comThe Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism ApartIn Minneapolis, the housing shortage has fractured the green community.

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And finally, Conor Dougherty’s masterful profile of Marin County anti-housing activist Susan Kirsch: www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/b...

nytimes.comTwilight of the NIMBY (Gift Article)Suburban homeowners like Susan Kirsch are often blamed for worsening the nation’s housing crisis. That doesn’t mean she’s giving up her two-decade fight against 20 condos.

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This new one by Charley Locke re Oakland seniors being against senior housing is good too: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Oh absolutely. Added to the thread.

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