Peter Cohen

7 Posts

Peter is co-director of the San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations and was the former policy director at East Bay Housing Organizations. He is an urban geographer by training who has been involved in a variety of land use, housing policy and planning initiatives in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area.
Housing

Putting in the Labor to Support Affordable Homes

With notoriously high housing costs in San Francisco pushing workers across occupations out of the city and into long commutes, the value of alliances between housing advocates and labor organizers are becoming increasingly clear.

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Fair Housing

Tackling Exclusionary Housing Policy in California

Diving into the issue of exclusionary practices that have exacerbated the housing crisis and offering some policy solutions.

Close-up of the back of a t-shirt that says "Because the rent won't wait."
Community Development Field

The Warren Housing Bill: Ready to Take On The Affordability Crisis?

Sen. Warren’s proposed bill represents the kind of holistic housing strategy we need from the federal government in facilitating affordable housing for all Americans in all cities and towns who have been left out, locked out, or exploited over decades by the national housing market. 

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Housing

A Jobs-Housing Fit

The Bay Area can benefit from a clearer framework for understanding what the housing needs of our region actually are and evaluating how housing production is meeting those needs. A Jobs-Housing Fit is that framework.

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Housing

The ‘Filtering’ Fallacy

The Council of Community Housing Organizations has created an infographic that breaks down the basics of filtering, the assumptions behind it, and the reasons it doesn’t work the way some say it does.

Housing

The “Supply-Side” Arguments, and Why Geography, Scale, and Migration Matter

Rick Jacobus' article, “Why We Must Build,” published here on Shelterforce a couple of weeks ago has created quite a buzz. Jacobus is smart, and has been writing on the […]