The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent

Re:The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent by DavidHm on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:31PM (#17718209)

The confluence or random circumstance and intentional lobbying that have allowed SF area landlords to ensure that a low stock of housing is maintained in the face of skyrocketing demand is truly fascinating.

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Re:The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent by komali2 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:50PM (#17718377)

Everything always seems behind. When I lived in mountain view, local papers were full of old school residents complaining about nearly finished new housing on Castro that a bunch of googlers would move into. Like... The time to preserve your small town setting passed about 20 years ago lol. It's no longer apricot field town, it's silicon valley, it's staying silicon valley. Why not profit off the rising land values?

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Re:The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent by wahern on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:05PM (#17718502)

But Silicon Valley was already dead 25 years ago!

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.folklore.comp...

  Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!abercrombie.Stanford.EDU!paulf
  From: [email protected] (Paul Flaherty)
  Subject: Re: Sillycon Valley history
  Message-ID: <[email protected]>
  Sender: [email protected] (Mr News)
  Organization: DSO, Stanford University
  References: <[email protected]>
  Date: 11 Mar 93 18:25:19 GMT
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  [email protected] (Dave Palmer) writes:
  >From what I understand, the shine is rubbing off. The cost of housing is
  >ludicrous, and companies are fleeing to places like Arizona. But you
  >still can't throw a silicon wafer in Cupertino without hitting an Apple
  >facility.

  I think it's fair to say that Silicon Valley is dead.  Cheap venture capital,
  minimal startup cost, access to university researchers, and good inter
  business communications fueled an engine which turned ideas into products.
  You can now find venture capital elsewhere, with the discount rate being
  what it is.  The cost of housing and office space has spiraled out of
  control, thanks to the environmentalists and Prop 13.  The trade secrets
  and intellectual property mania have pretty much destroyed open cooperation.
  The universities remain, but aren't the driving force they used to be.

  The place has a much different, more ossified feel to it than it did seven
  years ago.

  -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land."
  ->[email protected]   |                                -- Dr. Henry Jones Sr.

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Re:The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent by bobaccount on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:08PM (#17719500)

And then that guy invented AltaVista, in Silicon Valley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flaherty

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Re:The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent by throwawayboye on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:37PM (#17718265)

It’s not just SF, it’s every community. I’ve spoken with developers (like, housing) and they face difficulties in every community in America. NIMBYism is running rampant, and disenfranchised voters are unable to fight, or don’t care enough to get involved. This is why local elections matter. My city just elected a NIMBY city council, which means we’re screwed for years, but we won’t stop fighting. People deserve to have places to live, and people deserve sane cities.

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