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Or employers who only hire people who live nearby?

• jacquesm 11y ago
  Companies routinely establish themselves in locations where their employees can't live or can't afford to live. Zoning laws don't help with this either.
  • snarfy 11y ago
    Zoning laws are a big part of the problem. There are far too many backroom deals where the politician rezoning an area as 'high occupancy residential' happens to be the brother of the guy building the apartment complex there. The problem is systemic.
  • vlehto 11y ago
    That is only partially true. Company has to be within acceptable commute range for the employee. Lets say our company needs several employees. It is necessary to have critical mass of employable people living inside that range. The problem here is that 15min commute vs. 45min commute doesn't matter much to the employer. So companies try to go near major traffic routes at the outskirts of big cities. There employable population and cheap property converges.
• vlehto 11y ago
  In the beginning of the industrial revolution, it used to be relatively common for employer to arrange housing for the workers. No time commuting, but the catch is that the house is part of the salary. But the employer then gets to hire based on merit.