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tmh79 on Feb 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Hous...

it is a crisis that cities like Cupertino are building office space for 12k workers, but not building housing for them.

It is a crisis that the bay area has created office space for 8 new jobs for every 1 new unit of housing built.

gwbas1c on Feb 15, 2018 [–]

Yes, and these highly paid employees displace lower-income people. It's not low-income housing that's needed; it's new housing for highly-paid employees so they don't outbid low-income people.

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