> If workers are needed in an area, businesses will eventually need to pay them more. To me this is a sensible solution. Let the city start to suck a bit (expe

> If workers are needed in an area, businesses will eventually need to pay them more. To me this is a sensible solution. Let the city start to suck a bit (expensive or closed restaurants for example) and then other cities can share the burden of being go-to places to live. > Subsidizing their housing is a backdoor subsidy to the business owners who don't need to pay their workers enough to deal with living in the Bay Area. Not to mention subsidizing the property investors, and driving up demand.