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You claim demand to live in the Bay Area exceeds housing technology carrying capacity. Do you have any evidence for this? No city on Earth is full. (Indeed, es
by crawshaw 9y ago
You claim demand to live in the Bay Area exceeds housing technology carrying capacity. Do you have any evidence for this?
No city on Earth is full. (Indeed, estimates of human population growth show planetary population stabilizing at less than one tenth our global carrying capacity, so this is not surprising.) It would be extraordinary for the Bay Area to be the first, and so calls for extraordinary evidence.
- sliverstorm 9y agoI did not say demand exceeds housing technology carrying capacity. I said if the peninsula urbanizes (i.e. denser building, maybe 2-4x, not mega skyscrapers with bunks) demand will keep up. That should not be an extraordinary claim, given how many bedroom communities and commuters already surround it.
- crawshaw 9y agoWhy are you limiting the possible technologies? Skyscrapers work. Housing is a cost of living. Driving the cost of being alive as low as possible should be a high priority. We should use the tools we have to do it.
- sliverstorm 9y agoBecause I believe they sacrifice quality of life for density, and I think we can do better. We don't need to pack everyone in like sardines. As you already noted, there's plenty of space in the world. (You just have to turn your eyes outside the peninsula). P.S. I do not live nor aspire to live in the peninsula, or anywhere near it
- crawshaw 9y agoWhy are you limiting the possible technologies through government regulation? No other city is full because at some point people decide not to live so tightly packed together, and demand dries up. Current laws raise prices to enforce low density. That's wrong.