San Mateo Daily News covers Threshold findings
Monday, March 31st, 2008More news coverage of the Threshold 2008 civic engagement prjoect: Poll: Public wants denser housing San Mateo Daily News 3/30/08
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More news coverage of the Threshold 2008 civic engagement prjoect: Poll: Public wants denser housing San Mateo Daily News 3/30/08
Threshold 2008 publishes full report of findings on housing choices
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008The full report of the Threshold 2008 San Mateo County-wide assembly on housing choices is now available at the Threshold website: Click here (24-page pdf) As we mentioned in our last post on the topic, the results are pretty phenomenal from a housing advocate's viewpoint. Here are some top-level results showing ...
Threshold 2008 releases findings from countywide assembly on housing
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The Threshold 2008 civic engagement organization has issued a press release on its findings from the San Mateo County-wide assembly on housing choices, held the weekend of March 15-16. The findings are very encouraging. Here's the top-level statement: An unprecedented scientific random sample of 238 San Mateo County residents deliberated for ...
Threshold III: Strategies
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Sunday afternoon the Threshold 2008 countywide assembly on housing issues concluded with a panel discussion of four possible strategies: Streamline the development process Inclusionary housing Dedicated public funding Process for public consultation I was on the panel that answered the following questions from the small groups. Note that the questions were clustered around themes, so ...
Threshold continues: Questions from Saturday afternoon plenary
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Following up from my previous post about the Threshold civic engagement process: SATURDAY AFTERNOON PLENARY Panelists: Peter Ingram, Fran Wagstaff, Audrey Rust, Don Weden, Gary Patton, Duane Bay I missed the first part because I got interviewed by the filmmaker who’s shooting the weekend. What are the state directives for affordable housing? How ...
We have liftoff: Threshold 2008 assembly is under way
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Today the Threshold 2008 civic engagement process got under way, with the launch of the two-day countywide assembly at Canada College. We've blogged it before; and the Almanac News website carried a brief item about it from the local wire service today. Lenore Wilkas scooped us today with her post, San ...
Threshold civic engagement project in the news again
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Today the San Mateo Daily News highlighted the upcoming countywide assembly on housing issues, organized by the Threshold 2008 civic engagement project: Citizens debate housing crunch by Will Oremus. In the interest of full disclosure, Threshold's executive director, Greg Greenway, is a member of the HLC board of directors. (We'll have more ...
Threshold 2008 civic engagement effort in the news
Monday, March 10th, 2008Today the Examiner ran a story previewing the Threshold 2008 civic engagement effort. It kicks off this coming weekend with a two-day "countywide assembly" for 400 people, chosen to represent a statistically valid sample of San Mateo County's demographics. When Damien Frank went home shopping in 2005, his needs were simple: ...
Website for Threshold civic engagement project is up
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008The website for the Threshold 2008 civic engagement project is up now at: http://www.threshold2008.org In their words: "Threshold 2008 was formed to engage the public on housing issues and options in San Mateo County... We believe that by including more people in the discussion and by understanding the range of perspectives on ...
