Canada steps upto shield housing
Have you ever ever puzzled why the media appears fixated on Canada? It’s as a result of rich international traders — primarily Individuals — who’ve beforehand used actual property as a speculative funding, crashing the worldwide economic system within the course of, are actually dealing with restrictions in Canada. In contrast to the US, Canada has legal guidelines stopping actual property from being exploited as a mere monetary asset.
Canadians have already witnessed how housing turns into unaffordable when greed takes the wheel. The rich are emboldened by their management, and their ambitions don’t cease at borders. We can’t enable this enlargement to go unchecked. Defending housing markets isn’t a radical thought; it’s a worldwide effort.
Karl MooreHayward
There should be pathwayto equitable state PUC
I’m puzzled (and angered) why the California Public Utilities Fee is so unhealthy; why it appears to collude with, slightly than regulate, PG&E in so some ways. It’s an excessive hardship for ratepayers.
I believed that after the ouster of Michael Peevey new folks had been appointed and choices appeared extra balanced. Then issues modified again. There should be a pathway to extra elementary equity.
Barbara MoritaEl Cerrito
Subsidizing Bay Areapublic transit pays off
Re: “BART benefits riders, non-riders alike” (Web page A6, Dec. 17).
Author Peter Nicoll accurately observes that individuals who don’t experience BART profit from it by means of much less congested roads.
It’s additionally price noting that air air pollution is decreased due to vehicles not being pushed and that BART and different types of public transportation allow individuals who can’t afford a automobile to carry a job and thus to be taxpayers slightly than being homeless or on unemploymentor welfare.
There are numerous good causes that non-riders pay taxes to assist public transportation.
Merlin DorfmanLivermore
Training, not athletics,deserve Oakland’s funds
Re: “Oakland should invest in young athletes’ dreams” (Web page A8, Dec. 15).
James Kimball desires to see the prioritization of funding and assist for sports activities in Oakland, a metropolis thus far underwater financially that it must reduce important spending simply to outlive.
I really feel for scholar athletes, however regardless of their love for the sport and their expertise, few will make it to the key leagues, and a few of these few will retire early attributable to damage.
The precedence for all college students is a superb schooling, which supplies them the choices they most want for an ideal future. That is sadly the place Oakland fails these scholar athletes probably the most.
Denise KalmWalnut Creek
Nonprofit providers keepthe greed in verify
Re: “Health insurance workers rattled by public anger” (Web page A1, Dec. 13).
I’ve had the identical nonprofit, pay as you go well being plan for 60 years. I’ve by no means had a declare denial as a result of I’ve by no means needed to file one. I’ve by no means been denied care. Certainly, I’ve had glorious care, together with pressing most cancers surgical procedure with schedules rearranged to get me into the working room rapidly.
There are well being care options, however most Individuals have “for-profit” insurance coverage in our rabidly capitalist system.
Due to my expertise with nonprofit well being care, I’ve deserted Wall Road wherever attainable. All my insurance coverage is thru nonprofit corporations. My housing is in a nonprofit retirement group. My banking is thru a not-for-profit credit score union. Reigning in greed is one large repair. Greed is just not alright.
Tom DebleyWalnut Creek
