"the Bay Area that vote down all new housing so their home values rise." Every community (local, regional, national) has a right to decide their future. If so

"the Bay Area that vote down all new housing so their home values rise." Every community (local, regional, national) has a right to decide their future. If some locality doesn't want to be New York or Hong Kong, that's fine, it's their choice. There are vast, vast areas of the US that are not super high rent/income, or even totally under developed. Even around the Bay Area. 19th/20th century growth strategies are not consistent with sustainability in most ways. Also - any policy which has the effect of displacing local workers for foreign workers primarily as a function of wage should be totally outlawed. A lot of H1B is not this obviously, but a lot of it is. H1B might need a more nuanced approach in order for it to be a real net-gain and not just a 'labour input cost' policy.