Disruptive, isn’t it?
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Just build an RV parking Garage at Google.
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There was a point here in Seattle when you could count 30 cranes between downtown and south lake union building apartments and condos. Expensive living places. I just moved into one of them. I can confirm this. This didn’t reduce the cost of anything.
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With the extra benefit of reducing the carbon emissions of commuting, reducing worker stress, and significantly reducing child care expenses for many parents.
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Behold, the beginning of 6 figure income tech slums.
Very dystopian! I love it!
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And use the housing that already exists.
How many of the properties in Mountain View are unoccupied vehicles for money laundering and tax scams? How much new building is affordable housing, how much is oversized luxury development?
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Housing in the South Bay is mostly low-density suburban development. Fifty years ago it was all orchards. Somehow an entire metropolis has arisen there with a political culture that thinks sheltering the workforce is optional, like it’s somebody else’s problem.
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He’s an ANGRY elf!
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I agree and I’d like to add that it’s the responsibility of each local government in the Bay Area to establish rent control in order to protect the citizens that live there. It is not the responsibility of tech workers when they have no organizational control over the local housing market.
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Correction: the chant of “build the wall” were in San Jose, not mountain View. The paragraph in the original article makes that clear.
Why would Mountain View voter’s agree to something that would lower the value of their properties? Nah, they keep the tax revenue from hosting the big businesses and also get to keep scarcity in the housing/property market. Win/win!
This particular problem, in a metro area, is solved by taking planning and zoning power away from small cities and giving it to regional government.
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And suddenly '80s era Chevy Caprice wagons (and their siblings, and their Blue Oval rivals) move up from the sub-$1000 price range…
And the Buick Regal TourX gets surprising late 2nd quarter sales figures… FCA considers the return of the Magnum…
I happen to really like wagons, which makes me less against this new ordinance than I really should be.
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