buried lede they make $18 and $20 an hour respectively should set off alarm bells that the region as a whole is completely fuckedhttps://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/889551314845347841 …
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when tech cos propose employee housing to make up for actively malicious california governments it's decried as company towns or serfdom
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which may be true enough but idk what people expect them to do
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I mean they could just start buying off municipal governments and forcibly reshaping the region
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but I expect a lot of people would be very upset with this, and they don't really have the vision to pull it off anyway
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The median income for Menlo Park, CA is $103,702. Can't really use national averages. http://citylab.news21.com/data/types/19/
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that's my point tho, that the region's cost and quality of life are wildly out of line with other major metro areas
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I live in the bay area. Housing costs are crazy but quality of life is still pretty amazing. The tent cities that exist are our shame though
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idk man I lived in downtown sf and you see people every day strung out on smack and shitting in the streets
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the temperature never drops below fifty degrees but there is a massive population of homeless amputees
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other cities aren't like that. I came from new york and couldn't believe how fucked up sf was, it's a whole other world
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Yeah. SF has an edge and downtown has gotten worse. I'm from Chicago and saw lots drunk vets sleeping on grates in Chicago winters
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The Guardian runs an article like this 2/week and always focuses on the factors driving housing demand and never on those driving supply
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So true. But what amazes me most is the almost total lack of any political will to do anything about it.
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Not only is there no massive push for more housing, most residents do not even accept that prices have some relationship with supply.
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the giant elephant in the room agenda item missing from government priorities local, state, and federal -regulate real estate industry HARD
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