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Re:The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at ris... by seattle_spring on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:51AM (#15922643)
The Bay Area has 7 million people. I'm not sure why you cherry picked a subset of the region to claim a low population, but it strikes me as intentionally misleading.
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Re:The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at ris... by d--b on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:08PM (#15924051)
I got the number from there: https://jointventure.org/news-and-media/news-releases/1260-s...

It's the top result from googling "silicon valley population"

Still 7 million people is not a lot density-wise, I'm just saying you just can't blame high prices on people density only...

At least you can blame it on "not enough housing". Which sounds weird to me, cause cheap housing is very quick to build.

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Re:The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at ris... by closeparen on Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:39PM (#15927905)
Large-scale housing production is prohibited in the Bay Area as a matter of public policy. Reasons include honoring the “rights” of neighbors to be spared from unwanted changes in their neighborhoods, general anti-capitalist beliefs that markets are the wrong way to allocate housing or that private capital is the wrong way to build it, rejection of the idea that supply and demand apply to hosuing, and the simple observation that when new housing is built, it tends to be expensive.
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