Today’s Headlines

8:31 AM PDT on August 20, 2020

How regional MPOs are doing on climate goals - mostly meh (SSTI)
Startup wants to build affordable housing in your (Bay Area) backyard (Fast Company)
New bike blog in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
Stanislaus launches "Walk and Roll" active transportation encouragement campaign (Turlock Journal)
Lake County to host (virtual) meetings on new CEQA requirements for transportation projects (Lake County News)
California without Lyft or Uber? Other companies - and taxis - ready to step into the breach (Market Watch)
- Uber CEO: We can't just do it overnight! (The Verge)
HUD is likely undercounting homeless population, and small rent increases drive up homelessness (Smart Cities Dive)
Amazon buys farmland near Gilroy (Mercury News)
Cities that think they are safe from sea level rise may not be (LA Times)
Police unions are obstacles to reform (LA Times)
- And they bully local officials (City Metric)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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