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Re:The Homeless in Silicon Valley by landryraccoon on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @09:48AM (#10737992)
Forgive me, I don't understand. Are you saying developers need to be forced to build housing? Developers will do anything to build more units, if you ask them to set aside units for affordable housing they will. In SF it's almost impossible for them to build anything..
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Re:The Homeless in Silicon Valley by jmalicki on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @12:56PM (#10739232)
It seems like observing behavior of market participants shows developers won't build affordable units if asked:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Developer-pulls-o...

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Re:The Homeless in Silicon Valley by superuser2 on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:59PM (#10753585)
That "asking" is exactly the form of regulation I'm advocating. They won't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, but they'll do it if it's a prerequisite to build luxury housing.
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