Resources

It’s official! Our Equity, Environment and Jobs Scenario for the Bay Area’s future is the “environmentally superior alternative,” performing better than four other alternative plans on a broad [...]

In the Bay Area, countywide transportation agencies wield significant power over the use of billions of dollars in transportation funding. These “Congestion Management Agencies,” or CMAs, have [...]

Background The basic competitive unit of the global economy is not the city, but the metropolitan region. Our labor and housing markets, transportation systems, and air, water and other natural [...]

When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) issued their draft Plan Bay Area last month, thousands of pages of documents and appendices [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Access to Higher Education Case Date: February 1, 2012   Public Advocates is working to ensure that California’s postsecondary education system provides quality [...]

By: Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant Date: December 7, 2011 Few question that public transit and infrastructure investments can bring a range of benefits to communities. Such investments increase [...]

Date: December 5, 2011 We are proud of Director of Legislative and Community Affairs Liz Guillen, an amazing colleague who received the 2011 Ally Award from Bay Area Parent Leadership Action [...]