Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring

Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by pnathan on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:29PM (#15536206)

> People move here because they like yards and redwood trees and vineyards and hiking trail

no, they want jobs. you can get outdoors anywhere in the US, but only a few places in the US actually have a super vibrant economy.

and NOTHING precludes turning SF into a stack of 120-story high-density towers apartments for all family types and leaving the redwoods and grassy fields alone.

nothing but the unwillingness to go density, thus ensuring the grassy fields will slowly be turned into cookie cutter suburbs

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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by ghaff on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:00PM (#15536461)

Going to be fun getting around those 120 story towers given the rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit. There’s always the cable car I guess. But it shouldn’t take more than a few decades to expand that further as well.

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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by hx87 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:31PM (#15543996)

> rest of San Francisco’s infrastructure including mass transit

The moment Proposition 13 gets repealed that will no longer be a problem.

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