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This blog post sounds too simplistic. Firstly there is no shortage of housing, there is a shortage of housing in relation to where people work. The housing cr
by wrong_variable 10y ago
This blog post sounds too simplistic.
Firstly there is no shortage of housing, there is a shortage of housing in relation to where people work.
The housing crisis that this person speaks of can be solved if there was much more infrastructure that allows business to thrive in other parts of the US. Sensible Law, access to capital, access to good transport network, access to good educational institutions . .
You just do not put programmers in a room to generate software - programmers are there to improve their real life just like everyone else.
- rdlecler1 10y agoIt seemed that this was implied. People are increasingly more educated and jobs requiring educated workers are concentrated in a handful of cities as those cities benefit from network effects.
- pascalxus 10y agoFrom what I've seen, most companies are pretty stubborn about remaining in those coastal cities. As long as they can keep finding employees there, they don't have too much incentive to move to better areas with greater supply of labor. Instead, they'll just lobby congress for more H1Bs.