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I think this is good and should be encouraged. The Bay Area needs more housing desperately.
by georgeecollins 7y ago
I think this is good and should be encouraged. The Bay Area needs more housing desperately.
- brianwawok 7y agoMy only question, is will these houses have access to public transit or will they drive? If driving, can your roads handle the increased traffic? Housing, transit, schooling.. these all seem interconnected. Just increasing supply of one just strains the rest of the system, no?
- twblalock 7y agoThe only way transit will be built is if a strain develops. Otherwise what problem would be solved by building it?
- ketzo 7y agoMan, sometimes it's fun to imagine having a gigantic autocratic government like China that could just... build empty cities, or huge railroads that 11 people ride every day, knowing people would fill them up eventually. But then I guess you'd get everything else that comes with a gigantic autocratic government.
- koboll 7y agoRight now the point of most strain is at housing availability, so easing that would be a step in the right direction, even if it relocates the point of most strain to other forms of infrastructure. You can't solve every problem all at once.
- summerlight 7y agoOne of the trick here is a significant portion of this development will be placed near Googleplex and they will only provide parking units enough for less than half of them. This incentivizes not having a car at all (yes, there's a number of young new grad without a car even now) and implicitly give more benefits to their employees and TVCs. This is not necessarily a bad thing as a decent number of those high salary Google employees will not participate to the housing market thus reduce the upward pressure.
- georgeecollins 7y agoBut you have to start somewhere. NIMBYs (not saying you) will always find a reason to discourage housing and the problem just gets worse.