Greentech Enterprise, July 9, 2010 by Mark Boslet
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pace-on-life-support/

“I think it is going to keep things on hold,” agrees Ethan Elkind, a climate change research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA schools of law. “It makes everything a lot more expensive,” including Fannie Mae loans and the bonds that municipalities sell to raise PACE money.

San Jose Mercury News, June 17, 2010 by Ethan N. Elkind
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_15320358?nclick_check=1

Fannie and Freddie should continue to underwrite mortgages on properties with PACE assessments. They could insist on required safeguards, such as nonacceleration of the PACE assessment at the time of foreclosure and mandatory incorporation of the Energy Department’s PACE guidelines. But they should not jeopardize the future of this promising program over concerns that can be readily addressed. To do otherwise would be to mortgage our economic and environmental future.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2009 by Nancy Skinner and Ethan Elkind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/ED2U1B0MM8.DTL&type=printable

There are prime locations in our cities and developed areas that have significant potential for renewable power generation. These include rooftops of large buildings and the land along our highways, as well as the canals, pipelines and other infrastructure that make up the California aqueduct.

San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2009 by Jared Huffman and Ethan Elkind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/30/IN7Q19E409.DTL

The real estate collapse has masked the existence of a severe housing shortage in California. While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state…. The primary roadblock to this development is local land-use policies.