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I think these conversations and discussions would be much more interesting if we were talking about housing supply and demand in other states. It seems to me t
by ericmay 4y ago
I think these conversations and discussions would be much more interesting if we were talking about housing supply and demand in other states.
It seems to me that California is unique. It has some of the best weather and natural beauty in the world. Infinite demand to live there. It’s always going to have a housing shortage.
- CPLX 4y agoThat's a ridiculous statement. Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of California. You could pack up Los Angeles and San Diego and turn them into nature reserves and fit the entire state population into the Bay Area trivially if people just learned how to green light some fucking high rise apartment buildings.
- simonsarris 4y agoI must say if you made the Bay Area look like Tokyo a considerable amount of what people call "natural beauty", which is in part landscaped beauty, would be reduced. (Not that you couldn't greatly improve the place with Barcelona or Paris style density! I agree the low-hanging fruit is absurd)
- ericmay 4y agoYea but Tokyo is in a different country with different rules, laws, cultural expectations, etc. I’d say before building skyscrapers in existing neighborhoods, California could dismantle highways and build them there instead. Then you get a win-win of more housing and fewer SUVs and trucks.
- CPLX 4y agoYeah let's dismantle the highways and put giant high rises on them. We won't build trains or some alternate method of getting people and things where they need to go of course, but that's cool because Californians don't need food and supplies they can exist just on vibes, man.
- ericmay 4y agoWhat do you think they're going to do when they build new high rises? Build trains? No. They're going to build more highways and roads.