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Re:Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell develope... by bonniemuffin on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:23AM (#21682517)
Currently the poor are homeless or enduring multi-hour mega-commutes or stuffing a bunch of people into a single studio apartment. Well-located "barely livable wage slave pods" would be a huge improvement for a lot of people. I agree that the race to the bottom effect is a problem, but I think even the worst-case scenario would still be better than our existing housing situation.
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Re:Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell develope... by wnissen on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:34PM (#21685276)
Correct. A fire in a nice, completely unremarkable neighborhood about 40 miles east of San Francisco destroyed 4 units and made 35 people homeless. Almost 9 people to a home. And this is a solid 3-hour roundtrip commute from San Francisco or Mountain View. "Dickensian" is the word for it. Not literally, perhaps, because the housing situation in Dickens's time was even worse, but there is human misery on a broad scale.

https://www.independentnews.com/news/chestnut-street-fire-in...

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Re:Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell develope... by generalpass on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:48AM (#21682735)
Indeed, it is only a problem in the sense that it is not a perfect solution.
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