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Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by supportengineer on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:47PM (#38702990)
High demand areas in the Bay Area would be places like Atherton, Woodside, Los Altos Hills. The existing home owners have a lot of resources to fight developments such as high rise apartments or condos. They have no incentive to allow such development.
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Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by jimbob45 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:56PM (#38703098)
Why fight high-rise apartments? Those are going to preserve the character of a city better than anything.
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Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by kelnos on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:33PM (#38703488)
Atherton, Woodside, and Los Altos Hills are not cities (at least not the way you're thinking). They're relatively small communities full of people who live in large single-family homes on multi-acre lots, often surrounded by a fence or some other privacy-type barrier.

The "character" they want to preserve is not that of an urban center with multi-family housing.

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Re:The housing shortage is larger than you think by fragmede on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @10:06PM (#38704999)
They're absolutely not cities. They're small wealthy villages with a tiny population that exist in rural California.
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