Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
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Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
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Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#2Url changed from https://medium.com/@andersem/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years..., which points to this.
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#3Answering a question, why the decline in rents 1950-1960? Far as I know during WWII the population of the city swelled due to war time industry. After the war people moved to newly created suburbs in Santa Clara and the Peninsula.
I'm unsure but I think my grandparents moved to SF during the 1939-1940 WWII preseason. And by the late forties had moved away.
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#4Url changed from https://medium.com/@andersem/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years... , which points to this.
Yeah. Keeping it classy with a tiny grey link at the bottom of the Medium article.
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#5Url changed from https://medium.com/@andersem/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years... , which points to this.
Yeah. Keeping it classy with a tiny grey link at the bottom of the Medium article.
I really dislike this trend of "oh we totally credit our sources here is a tiny link at the bottom of the article, never mind that it isn't underlined like all the rest of our links and it is in the same color and font as the word 'Advertisement' just below."
The source should be clearly defined and easily accessible, especially with these just-rewriting-the-source articles. (Glaring at you, Gizmodo and TechCrunch.)
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#6> It will be very hard. If the (first) model is correct, it would take a 53% increase in the housing supply (200,000 new units),
Doesn't seem that hard in a city full of three-story housing.
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#7Answering a question, why the decline in rents 1950-1960? Far as I know during WWII the population of the city swelled due to war time industry. After the war people moved to newly created suburbs in Santa Clara and the Peninsula. I'm unsure but I think my grandparents moved to SF during the 1939-1940 WWII preseason. And by the late forties had moved away.
He mentioned he didn't have good data for housing advertisements during that time frame, so one possibility is that during the boom lots of people started advertising rooms for rent instead of entire houses or apartments.
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#8> It will be very hard. If the (first) model is correct, it would take a 53% increase in the housing supply (200,000 new units), Doesn't seem that hard in a city full of three-story housing.
I'm thinking the same thing. Is it physical limitations of building (such as earthquake proofing) that makes it difficult? Or is it the suffocating amount of bureaucratic red tape imposed by short-sighted interest groups?
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#9Building straight into the sky is easy. You'd be amazed at how earthquake-proof skyscrapers are with modern technology.
You want a challenge? Build in a city where you're required to post notice any time you cut down a tree on your own property.
Re: Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
#10New housing doesn't even need to be right in San Francisco. Anywhere along the Peninsula, even Oakland would be good enough, as long as it's close enough to public transportation.