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Could increasing housing density alleviate the Bay Area’s affordability crisis? Plus: The Othering and Belonging Conference kicks off April 9-10 – we spend the hour with john a powell

0:08 – Could increasing housing density alleviate the Bay Area’s housing crisis?

Senator Scott Weiner (@Scott_Wiener) thinks so. He represents Senate District 11 which includes the city and county of San Francisco – and just authored Senate Bill 50, which would zone for more density housing around transit.

0:15 – Supervisor Gordon Mar representing San Francisco District 4 disagrees; he authored a resolution opposing SB 50, cosigned by a majority of his fellow Supervisors.

0:34 – Ukraine heads toward a presidential election with a TV president now in the lead

We speak with Simon Ostrovsky (@SimonOstrovsky), a contributor to the PBS Newshour and based in Ukraine, with support from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

0:56 – Theater Review: KPFA’s Richard Wolinsky reviews Falsettos, the National Tour of the Lincoln Center production, now playing at Golden Gate Theatre though Sunday April 14.

1:08 – The Othering & Belonging Conference

We spend the hour with john a powell (@profjohnapowell) Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Professor of Law, Ethnic Studies, and African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Their Othering and Belonging Conference kicks off Monday, April 8-10: “for three days of innovative programming to advance scholarship, narratives, movements, systems, and policies that support a more fully inclusive ‘we.'”

Plus, we take your calls.

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