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“Palo Alto — and you can find this data in the census — is increasingly an aging, silver retirement community. It's either — you bought in the seventies, eighties or nineties, or you struck it rich on the startup lottery. I know our town can be a hell of a lot more than that.”

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Palo Alto Weekly

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· Nov 28, 2020

As he enters his final weeks in office, #PaloAlto Mayor Adrian Fine discusses his frustrations with local leadership, hobbled quests to build more housing and hopes for future council members to move the city forward. paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/11/2

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Jesse Powell

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What’s wrong with it being just what it is? Presumably, it is acceptable for some place to be an aging, silver retirement community. Why not Palo Alto? Being “more” would be something different, which sounds like it’s at odds with the retirement community vibe residents enjoy.

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Jesse Powell

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Dec 2, 2020

What's wrong with that?

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there are costs to everyone else:

techcrunch.com

East Of Palo Alto’s Eden: Race And The Formation Of Silicon Valley

What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community? Would the technology industry be different? Would we? And what can the technology industry do now to avoid repeating the...

Kim-Mai Cutler

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Dec 2, 2020

there are costs to the entire economy, on the order of trillions of dollars a year

bloomberg.com

The Urban Housing Crunch Costs the U.S. Economy About $1.6 Trillion a Year

For the first time, economists have put a price tag on restrictive urban land use policies.

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Why can’t we just have rich white people live in my neighborhood? What’s wrong with wanting to keep out unwanted elements?

Jesse Powell

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Dec 3, 2020

Rich white people are the biggest perpetrators of crime against rich people. If you can afford it, probably best to live in a rich minority community.