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I'm with you and feel your anger. So tired of California's useless virtue signaling about housing and homelessness while no progress is made for decades. Califo
by usui 7mo ago
I'm with you and feel your anger. So tired of California's useless virtue signaling about housing and homelessness while no progress is made for decades. California, stop messing around and start living up to your virtue signals! It's infuriating to live in California, hear all day about caring about poor people, then do nothing at all for the bottom line and in fact endeavor to make it harder and discriminate against poor people as much as possible.
And then they'll act so surprised when the populists without a plan show up and win the national elections.
- foobiekr 7mo agoSome of the problem in California is that the population of want-to-buyers is all focused on a small number of extremely geographically constrained areas. Their answer is always "more density" but more density isn't going to solve it - the demand is not fixed and density will not alleviate it, so there is natural pushback on ruining the area and not actually solving the problem. The real answer here is that the valley needs to extend further south, as in the 1990s plans for companies to start building campuses in Silver Creek or further, which would require the government to incentivize such moves. Had the dotcom lasted another two years or so, IBM, Cisco, and many others would have done the capital investment in campuses further out, and the viable housing area would have increased dramatically, but it didn't work out that way.