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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by vajrabum on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:37PM (#38746736)
Housing in San Francisco, the Penninsula and Silicon Valley is constrained by the fact that it's rich, already built out and there isn't anywhere else to expand to at the edge of town because of water or hills. People commute from outlying areas such as Tracy and Modesto where there's been massive construction of housing over the last 30 years.
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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by JumpCrisscross on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:44PM (#38746809)
> there isn't anywhere else to expand to at the edge of town because of water or hills

San Francisco has massive infill potential [1]. Its limited, expensive housing is a policy choice.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jake-Wegmann/publicatio...

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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by bobthepanda on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:45PM (#38746824)
New York is rich and yet can still build up. Bay Area NIMBYs are just next level.
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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by photonbeam on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:46PM (#38746837)
That’s because of the giant amounts of land to the east of 280 that you’re not allow to build on

Convenient for existing land owners..

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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by kccqzy on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:40AM (#38754177)
Already built out land should be made denser. I don't want the area to be expanded; that will make the area worse for walkability and bikeability; I don't want to see super commuters commuting from Tracy or Modesto because that's so much pollution, congestion, and misery; I also don't want to see the area's abundance of large open space disappear. We should instead make the current built land denser by strongly encouraging existing single-family homes to have ADUs or be converted into duplexes and fourplexes. We should require all new residential construction to be multi-family units meeting density standards. We should set minimum height rules for new residential buildings to encourage vertical use of space.
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