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So bottom line, places where people actually want to live, are more expensive. Sounds like supply and demand to me...

• CalRobert 12y ago
  Artificially constrained supply because existing homeowners are the ones who can vote, and they like seeing housing costs go through the roof.
  • rhizome 12y ago
    To be fair, for the past 165 years you haven't been required to be a property owner in order to vote. Also, it wasn't the voters who took Santa Clara and San Mateo counties out of the BART District, delaying even the possibility of high-speed mass transit to those areas until state action was taken this millenium.
    • CalRobert 12y ago
      No, but you have to live there to vote. If a community consists primarily of homeowners, and not renters, the interests of the homeowners are what will be reflected. Maybe that's OK, I suppose, but in this case it has meant finding a place to rent is very difficult.