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Old Posted Apr 10, 2018, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by aaron38 View Post
People in SF are living in RVs due to the massive housing shortage, and it takes 10 years to build maybe only 1600 homes?
The new mayor needs to make major changes to the development process.
San Francisco occupies less than half a percent of the Bay Area CSA, though, and that half a percent is already built up to the point where further building-up tends to achieve diminishing returns in terms of housing more people ... I would suggest that the major part of the Bay Area's housing crisis is in places on the Peninsula whose residents aren't allowing to densify concomitant with the residential needs of the region.
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