Matthew Fleischer
SF Chronicle
California, United States
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Past articles by Matthew:
Why solar power could be the next victim of San Francisco’s bloated bureaucracy
For the past three years, it has been effectively illegal to install a battery storage system on a one or two-family home in San Francisco. → Read More
How antiquated 1970s environmentalism led to the disastrous UC Berkeley ruling
California’s CEQA is at least partially rooted in a misunderstanding of overpopulation... → Read More
Zillow's collapse was no surprise to me. I sold my home to an iBuyer and watched it get clobbered
Like MoviePass before it, Zillow’s iBuying adventures were a rare and fleeting handover... → Read More
Want to get rid of S.F.'s most toxic monument to racism and segregation? End single-family zoning
Single-family zoning was born of Bay Area racism. End it for good. → Read More
I just flew for the first time since COVID. It was disgusting
If ever there was a reminder why we need high-speed rail in California, this was it. → Read More
I just flew for the first time since COVID. It was disgusting
If ever there was a reminder why we need high-speed rail in California, this was it. → Read More
California is reopening on June 15. We can't allow ourselves to go back to normal
“Normal” equals racism and death. Reverting back to the status quo is unacceptable. → Read More
How working from home could actually make Bay Area traffic worse
California’s big cities, especially San Francisco, have seen an exodus of residents to... → Read More
Keep focus on GOP Jim Crow fascism, not voter line water bans
The foundation of our democracy is the right to vote. Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are trying to strip that right from people of color. → Read More
No Biden infrastructure money for racist L.A. freeway expansion
What about this moment says it’s a good idea to bulldoze Latino neighborhoods in southeast L.A. County to widen the 605 Freeway? → Read More
Grim gentrification of L.A's Echo Park 50 years in the making
It's easy to blame COVID-19 for Echo Park's homeless tensions. But the root of the problem goes back decades. And that history is worth mining now. → Read More
Nithya Raman is about to test how progressive L.A. really is
Can Raman provide the model for helping California finally match its progressive rhetoric with local action on housing? → Read More
There's no center between AOC progressives and GOP death cult
Democrats can either protect Americans from coronavirus or not. They can prevent catastrophic global warming or not. → Read More
Prop 14: When California voted segregation into its Constitution
In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make segregation a part of the state’s Constitution with the passage of Prop 14. → Read More
It's racism, right? Liberals still don't get Trump supporters
What makes Trump supporters tick? L.A. Times readers have some thoughts. → Read More
How police brutality helped white people segregate L.A.
Police brutality was never just the whim of racist police. It reflected white people's will to segregate. To an uncomfortable extent, it still does. → Read More
L.A. freeways are the most racist California monuments
Spewing carbon monoxide across L.A. on the freeway system feeds into a pot of racism and segregation that’s been stewing for nearly a century. → Read More
White women still can't stop calling police on black people
Calling 911 is not a free mediation service for white people to get the upper hand in banal disputes with people of color. → Read More
Georgia coronavirus data made reopening look safe. It wasn't
Why do Georgia’s coronavirus numbers look so rosy despite reopening? Because data were bungled in such a way it's hard to believe it wasn't on purpose. → Read More
Earth Day 2020: Coronavirus crisis shows how toxic cars are
There is no herd immunity from the damage caused by millions of personal automobiles roaming city streets at all hours. → Read More