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The updated shelter-in-place mandate from the Bay Area’s six health departments shuttered almost all of another industry—construction. Construction was allowed—with appropriate distancing—in the initial three-week order that ended Monday. The latest order shuts down the entire industry with one exception: developers building affordable housing. I don’t debate the need for affordable housing, but question the […]

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