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The Christian Science Monitor
California’s take on a housing crisis: Aim for abundance, reap affordability
The laws are, in part, designed to promote units that are affordable – generally defined as costing no more than 30% of a family’s income. They move California in the right direction, said Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist at Wake Forest University who studies housing and poverty. If California – where midtier homes cost more than twice the nationwide average – can narrow the affordability gap with an influx of new housing, then it could “perhaps be a blueprint for other states and localities,” she said.
October 30, 2025
POLITICO
Economics professor Robert Whaples, who has long argued that the penny is obsolete, said the transition is “not going to be that big of a deal.” “And it’ll slowly unfold,” he said. “I think I’m going to still be seeing pennies a decade or two decades from now … There are so many of them still out there in circulation.”
October 27, 2025
A Catalyst for Good
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