[dragonwriter]

> Concentrate your tech workers in a area that isn't hostile to expanding the housing supply when needed.

Sure, you can try that.

But if the place doesn't offer the environmental features that make the Bay Area attractive, your going to have to offer them a premium to live there; lower housing costs may cover some of that so that you are only paying the same, but may not.

The Bay Area is expensive, more than anything else, because people want to live there.