Tag / san francisco
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Evaluating Candidates’ Housing Policy Proposals
Housing affordability is on many people’s minds as rents in cities like San Francisco, New York and Seattle have skyrocketed in recent years. Renters are paying increasingly high proportions of their incomes in rent as housing price growth has outstripped both inflation and wage growth. As a result, these cities are becoming too expensive for…
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Religious Minorities in Some of America’s Largest Cities
Despite the First Amendment’s role in the separation of church and state, the United States is far from a secular nation. God is invoked in our Pledge of Allegiance, dollar bills, and in nearly every inaugural address since James Monroe’s in 1817. Biblical references in these inaugural speeches, during elections, and following national tragedies suggest…
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