Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is a big advocate of science — the concept, not the magazine. He’s often said science was behind his many controversial moves to counter COVID-19, and he’s using science in the state’s effort to mitigate future wildfires, for just two examples.However, when confronted with the strong possibility that scientific findings may conflict with his years-long push for more housing density, signing bill after bill to further that cause over the last five years, he ignored them.
“Housing density … facilitates active transportation, such as walking and biking,” Wiener said via email back then. “People are much healthier when they regularly walk, as opposed to having a sedentary lifestyle and spending hours every day in a car.” He and his supporters in the Legislature each year since 2018 have passed new laws making building permits for dense housing easier and easier to get. Easiest of all are the “builders’ remedy” structures going up in cities from Santa Monica to San Jose, where housing plans weren’t approved by state authorities prior to arbitrary deadlines.
Here’s the latest tally from the National Center for Health Statistics: In 2018, 16,457 Californians suffered strokes. A year later, there were 16,851. In 2020, there were 17,916, and by 2021, the last year for which numbers are available, the figure had jumped to 18,304. That’s an 11.2% increase in strokes during a time when population dropped and new dense housing construction expanded vastly.
Yet, the authors of the Barcelona study insist they have nothing against high-rise living. Payam Dadvand, M.D., a co-author of the stroke study, said that “Denser cities have both pros and cons. It very much depends on how they are designed and planned.”
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