Kate Kershaw Downing has posted a worthy letter of resignation from the Palo Alto Housing commission, that seems to live on going viral.
Palo Alto is absurdly expensive. People who desire to come upwards hither for jobs can't afford to alive anywhere nearby. What to create most it?
She likewise warns
As the send service notes, the Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution on the same letter. Alex points out simply how much nosotros receive got all lost holding rights.
Palo Alto is absurdly expensive. People who desire to come upwards hither for jobs can't afford to alive anywhere nearby. What to create most it?
I receive got repeatedly made recommendations to the Council to expand the housing render inwards Palo Alto then that together alongside our neighboring cities who are already adding housing, nosotros tin outset to brand a dent inwards the jobs-housing imbalance that causes housing prices throughout the Bay Area to spiral out of control. Small steps similar allowing 2 floors of housing instead of 1 inwards mixed purpose developments, enforcing minimum density requirements then that developers build apartments instead of penthouses, legalizing duplexes, easing restrictions on granny units, leveraging the residential parking permit programme to experiment alongside housing for people who don’t desire or involve ii cars, in addition to allowing single-use areas similar the Stanford shopping middle to add together housing on altitude of shops (or offices), would larn a long trend inwards adding desperately needed housing units piece maintaining the grapheme of our neighborhoods in addition to preserving historic structures throughout.
She likewise warns
If things larn out on going every bit they are, yes, Palo Alto’s streets volition expect simply every bit they did decades ago, but its inhabitants, spirit, in addition to feel of community volition live on unrecognizable. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 i time thriving urban essence volition plough into a hollowed out museum.I institute Ms. Downing's missive of the alphabet noteworthy inwards that it did non include the common Bay Area nostrums -- the regime must build "affordable housing," freeze rents, ban novel construction (yes, this is proposed) or otherwise receive got counterproductive actions. Those steps tin save about existing low-income people at high cost -- creating a dissimilar sort of museum, actually -- but brand matters fifty-fifty worse for people who desire to motion hither to work. Few local voices appreciate that expanding render tin create a lot to lower prices, in addition to nurture historic catamenia in addition to economical diversity.
As the send service notes, the Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution on the same letter. Alex points out simply how much nosotros receive got all lost holding rights.
