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Russell Hancock

As seen in: The Mercury News, Routledge, The Press Democrat, East Bay Times, Palo Alto Weekly, Record Searchlight, Black Voice News
President & CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, teach at Stanford, and also the pianist in the Saint Michael Trio. Father of 3, married to Marguerite.
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Hancock: Bay Area leaders have tools to fix housing. Are they bold enough to use them?

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By Russell Hancock
| The Mercury News Verified
Silicon Valley has achieved a level of prosperity unmatched in human history. We’re geographically smaller than Rhode Island, but our collective wealth and regional output are on the scale of a G7 nation. Yet we also have the world’s most pronounced income inequality, and our wealth gaps are staggering. The top tenth of Valley households hold 75% of the wealth; the bottom half, less than 1% of it. In the 1990s, we were mostly a middle-class community with the normal range of outliers.
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Hancock: Forget Washington. The Bay Area can invent its own future

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By Russell Hancock
| The Press Democrat Verified
Washington is an unending source of tumult these days, and it includes a certain animosity toward the Bay Area. Folks are treating it like a major setback for our region. But what if it represents a fresh set of opportunities? A chance to go it on our own and invent the future we want for ourselves? There’s nothing stopping us. There may have been a time when we relied on Washington to set direction, to provide assistance for local programs and to come through with major infusions of money.
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Opinion: D.C. dysfunction means Bay Area must work together, dream big to solve its problems

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By Russell Hancock
| The Mercury News Verified
Washington is an unending source of tumult these days, and it includes a certain animosity toward the Bay Area. Folks are treating it like a major setback for our region. But what if it represents a fresh set of opportunities? A chance to go it on our own and invent the future we want for ourselves? There’s nothing stopping us. There may have been a time when we relied on Washington to set direction, to provide assistance for local programs, and to come through with major infusions of money.
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