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by shiroiushi
689 days ago
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>What keeps even one city from breaking ranks and allowing massive amounts of construction? Some minor city allowing massive construction isn't magically going to make lots of high-paying jobs appear there. Over time, it might make the place an attractive destination for migration, but it's far from certain. Think about it this way: if Toledo, Ohio allowed massive housing construction, would lots of tech companies flock there and try to get tech employees to move there? Or Fargo, ND? I kinda doubt it. Even within the Bay Area (which is composed of a bunch of municipalities like SF, Oakland, Cupertino, San Jose, etc.), one city allowing more construction might not help you much if your job is elsewhere, because it's too far to commute and the commuting infrastructure sucks. |
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Yes. The high paying white collar jobs are already there in the bay area.
(My earlier comment mentioned jobs mostly in the context of new blue collar jobs for people during the construction.)
> Think about it this way: if Toledo, Ohio allowed massive housing construction, would lots of tech companies flock there and try to get tech employees to move there? Or Fargo, ND? I kinda doubt it.
I agree, but I don't see how that's relevant for the bay area.
> Even within the Bay Area (which is composed of a bunch of municipalities like SF, Oakland, Cupertino, San Jose, etc.), one city allowing more construction might not help you much if your job is elsewhere, because it's too far to commute and the commuting infrastructure sucks.
I don't even live in the bay area, so it doesn't help me at all. At least not directly. But I also don't see how that question is relevant?
As long as it helps some people enough that they are willing to pay enough to keep local house prices high, my argument still stands.
And the opposite is also ok: if one city building would actually make houses more affordable in that area, then that just invalidates the whole premise of the grand-parent comment that individual cities can't make dent, and that intervention from higher levels of government (like the state) are necessary.