Jesse Powell on Twitter: "@rf_mehlinger @kimmaicutler How is it harming people? What's wrong with the world having some places with more expensive and less dense housing than other places?" / Twitter

“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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Dec 1, 2020

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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How is it harming people? What's wrong with the world having some places with more expensive and less dense housing than other places?

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Those places shouldn't be in the middle of one of the regions that are simultaneously among the most productive and experience the most displacement of anywhere in the country

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Mike Dunham

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Dec 2, 2020

Correct. Palo Alto's privileged place in the world is not because its residents are so savvy or its local government so brilliant. It's because of a large number of factors, some within but most outside the city's control, that lead to an economically strong region.

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