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by mistrial9 1808 days ago
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the housing supply is very certainly behind "balance" by 500,000 units (pre-covid).

source: 15 year professional Urban Planner in California

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I've read since 2008 LA has added 5 jobs for every new unit of housing. I'm sure other places in CA must be just as bad with how they've been building for the past decade. It feels like we are so far in the hole in many cities, I'm not sure how much overbuilding it would take to right the ship and make housing affordable to the median wage earner again.