An Open Letter to California’s Governor Brown

This set of blog posts will discuss Governor Brown’s decision in 2011-2012 to cancel redevelopment agencies and then to invest in climate change protections. I will argue that it was a foolish choice, based on the values involved, and the waste of money as an investment. But all is not lost; there's a common ground.

Here’s an executive summary of the next chapters:

• Climate change is a potential, long term problem; affordable housing is a present, definite problem
• Building real estate for the working class provides solid and significant benefits; investment in climate change provides hypothetical returns.
• Smart affordable housing will help reduce carbon emissions more than other investment in climate change.
• Investing in affordable housing is a better investment than spending on climate change protections.