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Because people keep using valuable space for offices instead of affordable housing? This is exactly why SF sucks to live in. You have to live there to be close
by fortyten 9y ago
Because people keep using valuable space for offices instead of affordable housing?
This is exactly why SF sucks to live in. You have to live there to be close to work, but you're in competition with your damn office. Talk about screwing over your employees.
- selectodude 9y agoThat isn't how affordable housing works. You can't will it into existence.
- fortyten 9y agoRight, step one is to leave the bay area.
- selectodude 9y agoI’m doing my part. Live nowhere near it.
- mrkurt 9y agoMunicipalities _lose_ money on residential space. And make money on commercial space. Sure the companies are collectively going along with this, but it's a really ridiculous structural problem that the state of California needs to fix.
- awad 9y agoThe municipalities could allow building vertically for more dense housing in both SF and the wider Bay Area but NIMBYism is pretty strong out here so not sure why the commercial developers are being chastised. The reality is that the market has determined that, with the limited resources available given current building codes, it is more profitable to build and lease commercial space. I don't know that I would blame the employers so much as the actual existing residents fighting against more dense housing.
- freehunter 9y agoSideways is not the only way buildings can grow. Even if horizontal space is at a premium, vertical space is virtually unlimited.