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Re:A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis by Retric on Saturday February 22, 2020 @09:39PM (#22394733)
You say that yet there is still adding more space for jobs than housing. That’s the core issue, if new jobs > new housing the situation gets worse. If new housing > new jobs the situation gets better.

Retrofit some office space as apartments and you quickly fix the issue without any new buildings. You could even just remove some office buildings and replace them with parks for a similar net effect.

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Re:A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis by thereisnospork on Saturday February 22, 2020 @09:58PM (#22394798)
Choking the economy by limiting jobs is hardly a reasonable solution to limited housing. You are also presuming that it is easier to build offices than apartments, and easier to get permits, do environmental studies, appease NIMBY groups, and navigate the lawsuits necessary to turn offices into apartments.

More directly to the point: with current residential rents there should be a lot of money in doing just what you are proposing, and yet the real estate developers aren't.

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Re:A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis by Decade on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:46PM (#22394979)
It absolutely is easier to build offices than apartments. And I don’t have a lot of physical needs; I would live in the office if it were legal.

As it is, at my previous job the company allocated a room to be the nap room, but instead turned it into a meditation/massage room because sleeping is forbidden in commercial zoning.

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