[santaclaus]

I've met tenured computer science professors at UC Santa Barbara who couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara. That place is nuts. Similar situation with Stanford and Palo Alto.

[SilasX]

IIRC, planning commission members couldn't afford to live in Palo Alto.

[beamatronic]

The official poverty line is $250k household income in Palo Alto.

[TheCoelacanth]

I believe this is a misinterpretation of a news story about Palo Alto considering subsidizing housing for households making under $250k. It is not the poverty threshold, it is just a hypothetical cutoff for qualifying for housing subsidization in one housing plan that Palo Alto considered.

[sjg007]

Which is still nuts... a quarter million a year and you qualify for subsidized housing.. yet they won’t build condos.

[s0rce]

Makes sense if you let the locals control zoning decisions, if you have a house in your nice quaint suburb and are extremely selfish you probably would try to block condo developments.

[TheCoelacanth]

You don't qualify for it. They considered it. They didn't actually enact that plan.