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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by jimrandomh on Monday May 29, 2017 @01:21PM (#14440177)
That would be a very bad thing. California has a serious shortage of housing, and putting a few new cities in this unused land would go a long way towards bringing rents down to something reasonable.
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Re:The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014) by aerodeck on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:20PM (#14440895)
Perhaps doing something to control an overheated housing market would help more than tearing up new land 100 miles away from cities whose prosperity derives from the 'network effects' of geographical proximity.
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