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I got the number from there: https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1260-silicon-valley-population-hits-3-million https://jointventure.org/news-a

by d--b 9y ago

I got the number from there: https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1260-silicon-valley-population-hits-3-million https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1260-s... It's the top result from googling "silicon valley population" Still 7 million people is not a lot density-wise, I'm just saying you just can't blame high prices on people density only... At least you can blame it on "not enough housing". Which sounds weird to me, cause cheap housing is very quick to build.

closeparen 9y ago
Large-scale housing production is prohibited in the Bay Area as a matter of public policy. Reasons include honoring the “rights” of neighbors to be spared from unwanted changes in their neighborhoods, general anti-capitalist beliefs that markets are the wrong way to allocate housing or that private capital is the wrong way to build it, rejection of the idea that supply and demand apply to hosuing, and the simple observation that when new housing is built, it tends to be expensive.