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The uninhabited land you speak of is: * mountains: expensive to build on, definitely not a good place for affordable housing * water: in the past 100+ years t
by cobbzilla 9y ago
The uninhabited land you speak of is:
* mountains: expensive to build on, definitely not a good place for affordable housing
* water: in the past 100+ years there has been substantial build-out onto the Bay. Any further encroachments are met with stiff resistance.
* far: to get past the above 2 difficulties, you're looking at an hour+ to get to SF. Things are (relatively) affordable in Sacramento, if you're willing to deal with that commute.
It's a beautiful but cursed geography, this SF Bay area.
And then there's this, from the article: "Neighborhoods in which single-family homes make up 90 percent of the housing stock account for a little over half the land mass in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles metropolitan areas", so there is an understandable urge to increase density in some of those SFH areas.