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I've met tenured computer science professors at UC Santa Barbara who couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara. That place is nuts. Similar situation with Stanfo
by santaclaus 9y ago
I've met tenured computer science professors at UC Santa Barbara who couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara. That place is nuts. Similar situation with Stanford and Palo Alto.
- SilasX 9y agoIIRC, planning commission members couldn't afford to live in Palo Alto.
- beamatronic 9y agoThe official poverty line is $250k household income in Palo Alto.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoI believe this is a misinterpretation of a news story about Palo Alto considering subsidizing housing for households making under $250k. It is not the poverty threshold, it is just a hypothetical cutoff for qualifying for housing subsidization in one housing plan that Palo Alto considered.
- sjg007 9y agoWhich is still nuts... a quarter million a year and you qualify for subsidized housing.. yet they won’t build condos.
- s0rce 9y agoMakes sense if you let the locals control zoning decisions, if you have a house in your nice quaint suburb and are extremely selfish you probably would try to block condo developments.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoYou don't qualify for it. They considered it. They didn't actually enact that plan.