This is awesome, and I want to see more. If cities continue allow for more jobs than housing, big companies can push back and require that they be allowed to build housing as part of their major office plans.https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-billion-investment-bay-area-housing/ …
But saying "we intend to ask nicely to re-zone some land" in an environment where nearly all zoning reform has been argued to death? Seems at best a one-off improvement.
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What I'd like to see is Amazon HQ-style negotiations, except around housing approvals instead of taxes. You want us to build nice, cutting offices for high-paying jobs? Let us build housing, including BMR units.
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Facebook failed doing similar thing in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. They own all of this landhttps://goo.gl/maps/4MJEumC4EMbgmahN7 …
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Yeah, nothing about these strike me anything but "stuff we can announce" that have a satisfyingly large number attached. If there was an announcement about some sort of issue campaign or NGO support or legal-aid support being proposed, that might be different.
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I doubt Google would risk its relationship with the city over this, but I wonder what would happen if they just built it. Would the city really destroy 15k new units in a region starved for housing?
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