{"id":949,"date":"2014-03-26T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=949"},"modified":"2014-03-26T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:25:34","slug":"do-single-family-homes-threaten-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/03\/26\/do-single-family-homes-threaten-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Single-Family Homes Threaten the Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do Single-Family Homes Threaten the Planet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A plan to squeeze most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area into multifamily housing offers a test case of whether land-use bureaucracies nationwide, encouraged by the Obama administration, should be allowed to transform American lifestyles under the pretext of combating climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 56 percent of households in the nine-county Bay Area live in single-family homes. That number would drop to 48 percent by 2030, under a high-density development blueprint called Plan Bay Area, recently enacted by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the region\u2019s Metropolitan Transportation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Plan Bay Area has already drawn several legal challenges, and the debate could spread nationwide if, as may happen, it becomes a model for regulators in other parts of the country.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/commentary\/do-single-family-homes-threaten-planet\"><br \/>\nRead More from CATO&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Single-Family Homes Threaten the Planet? A plan to squeeze most residents of the San Francisco Bay Area into multifamily housing offers a test case of whether land-use bureaucracies nationwide, encouraged by the Obama administration, should be allowed to transform American lifestyles under the pretext of combating climate change. Currently, 56 percent of households in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}