profitable for cities to have jobs inside their borders but a money loser to have housing This is unrelated to Prop 13 and predates it by over a decade. Cupert

profitable for cities to have jobs inside their borders but a money loser to have housing This is unrelated to Prop 13 and predates it by over a decade. Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, etc. all focused on industry and jobs while San Jose focused on annexing every parcel they could. Under Dutch Hamman alone, San Jose grew fivefold.