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If only we could build more houses where people work so they wouldn't have to commute from Santa Cruz..

epistasis 7y ago
Santa Cruz's city council has opposed any sort of state level action that would let more people live close to the jobs, ironically.
- rsync 7y ago
  Your parent is suggesting, correctly, that the place to add housing density is inside the city (of San Francisco) itself. It is neither noteworthy, nor harmful, that Santa Cruz maintains itself as a "bedroom community" if there is plenty of density where it belongs: in the city.
  - epistasis 7y ago
    It is noteworthy that Santa Cruz has opposed legislation at the state level that would place density in the cities, despite leading political figures demagoguing the evils of being a bedroom community, and the evils of letting people live in Santa Cruz while they work over the hill. It is also failing to build the density that would allow affordable housing for its own workforce, instead maintaining luxury zoning which means that only mansions will be built for out of towners that visit sometimes but not often. This means big profits for the working class homeowners that are now retired, but exclusion of any opportunity for working class people today.
deepakhj 7y ago
Build more office space and dense housing so people can afford to start companies in Santa Cruz.
kelnos 7y ago
As much as I'm uncomfortable with the idea of taking housing policy from local control and moving some of it to the state, I think this is the only way to get communities to "cooperate". I do think Santa Cruz should do some building of its own, but relieving some of the pressure there and making it more feasible for people to live in larger cities with higher density needs to happen. On the other hand, I do know several people who work on the peninsula or in south bay who have chosen to live in Santa Cruz because they actually like Santa Cruz. Not because of cost or availability or housing policy in the rest of the bay area.

Santa Cruz's city council has opposed any sort of state level action that would let more people live close to the jobs, ironically.

rsync 7y ago
Your parent is suggesting, correctly, that the place to add housing density is inside the city (of San Francisco) itself. It is neither noteworthy, nor harmful, that Santa Cruz maintains itself as a "bedroom community" if there is plenty of density where it belongs: in the city.
- epistasis 7y ago
  It is noteworthy that Santa Cruz has opposed legislation at the state level that would place density in the cities, despite leading political figures demagoguing the evils of being a bedroom community, and the evils of letting people live in Santa Cruz while they work over the hill. It is also failing to build the density that would allow affordable housing for its own workforce, instead maintaining luxury zoning which means that only mansions will be built for out of towners that visit sometimes but not often. This means big profits for the working class homeowners that are now retired, but exclusion of any opportunity for working class people today.

deepakhj 7y ago

Build more office space and dense housing so people can afford to start companies in Santa Cruz.

kelnos 7y ago

As much as I'm uncomfortable with the idea of taking housing policy from local control and moving some of it to the state, I think this is the only way to get communities to "cooperate". I do think Santa Cruz should do some building of its own, but relieving some of the pressure there and making it more feasible for people to live in larger cities with higher density needs to happen. On the other hand, I do know several people who work on the peninsula or in south bay who have chosen to live in Santa Cruz because they actually like Santa Cruz. Not because of cost or availability or housing policy in the rest of the bay area.