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Your #1 is not a fair generalization. Here in NYC there’s a consensus that building large amounts of dense housing is necessary to have a functioning city and s
by CPLX 7y ago
Your #1 is not a fair generalization. Here in NYC there’s a consensus that building large amounts of dense housing is necessary to have a functioning city and society. So it happens. Apartments got way way more expensive but a lot of new buildings have started to push pricing back down.
California is different on this topic, and the Bay Area is positively pathological. It’s completely reasonable to call out SV specifically for that mindset.
- spamizbad 7y agoI don't think SV supports constraining housing supply in California. Quite the opposite. Its workforce is stuck coughing up their paychecks to their landlords.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoSV tech companies, and their employees, are almost universally in favor of building large amounts of dense housing. Google and Facebook are even building housing themselves because they don't think local developers are building enough.
- CPLX 7y agoApple just put 12,000 employees into a low rise complex surrounded by parking lots with no access to mass transit of any kind.