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.