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I think you should hope to live in more than the handful of square meters than a classic tech worker occupies in an office. Housing people on the same ground a
by C4stor 8y ago
I think you should hope to live in more than the handful of square meters than a classic tech worker occupies in an office.
Housing people on the same ground area than the offices would probably prove to be a huge technical challenge since it would effectively need probably 8 to 10 times the square footage, not to mention I'm not quite sure people really all want to have their colleagues as neighbours.
- zjaffee 8y agoI'm not saying that the housing would need to go to those who work in the office, if anything it should be a part of the broader open market. I'm also not saying that the office needs to match the housing supply of it's office workers in full, as a lot of new office development is hiring from people locally as well. But say, if you looked at the Seattle area, where Microsoft and Amazon have built over 10 million square feet of office space in recent years, an extra 10,000 apartments would go a long way in relieving the pressure on housing prices.
- photojosh 8y agoHmm, maybe we could have a "housing credit" market system. For every office building with n workers, require housing for some % of n within the local area. Then the credits would be priced according to the imbalance between residential and commercial construction. Excess housing around? (Hah.) Well the residential builders will have to pay the commercial builders!