Yes, but only decades. The main form of subsidy that these particular buildings enjoy is the construction and repair of roads on sliding hillsides. A further s

Yes, but only decades. The main form of subsidy that these particular buildings enjoy is the construction and repair of roads on sliding hillsides. A further subsidy is their overrepresentation in the budget of the fire department, since this area is served by relatively more fire stations per capita than the central city. Finally, the topic of this article: in cases of fire, the owners of these buildings will expect the rest of us to bail them out. FYI, these buildings are also directly atop the Hayward Fault. > What about Paradise, CA? It should be obvious that as a matter of public policy nobody should be allowed to build a dwelling inside a forest the way Paradise was built.