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Downing said, she and her husband, a software engineer, were sharing a home with a couple for $6,200 a month.Patrick says
Where do the fast food workers live? Share a house with 10 couples?
I expect a lot of them live with parents or relatives, or they live in very dangerous areas like parts of Oakland where the rent is low.
Violent crime is actually necessary to keep rents low for them. Employers and low-wage employees both have a financial interest in making sure that violent crime continues unabated in those places.
On the surface, 42 people leaving per month doesn’t seem to make a dent. But Brian Brennan, vice president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which backed the project along with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, said that it’s a “dramatic shift” from a year earlier. Figures for 2017 were not available.
Patrick saysOn the surface, 42 people leaving per month doesn’t seem to make a dent. But Brian Brennan, vice president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which backed the project along with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, said that it’s a “dramatic shift” from a year earlier. Figures for 2017 were not available.
42 leaving per month is meaningless. The same article mentions 2,506 new immigrants arriving there per month in 2016. There would also be some people migrating to the area from other parts of the US.
Bottom line.....If more people are coming in than leaving, and you still don't build enough housing, the home shortage can only get worse.
The problem is more the quality and skill of people coming vs leaving. Skilled workers leave the bay area and you can only have so many low-skill services catering to the few wealthy left.
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