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Single Family Zoning is now banned in California

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Re: Single Family Zoning is now banned in California

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Post by personjerry »

I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable.

With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever.

Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most American families is to settle down in a single family home. And so even if this bill lowers rent, won't it actually push more senior tech workers to look elsewhere for their eventual long term home, making the region more "mercenary" than ever?

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

0xB31B1B wrote: post #5
umvi wrote: post #3

California is a big state. Surely this only bans single family zoning in egregious areas like San Francisco and not other parts of California that don't have a housing crisis?

The whole state has a housing crises. Even the little towns in the sierras or way up north.

That isn't a uniform "housing crises" throughout the state. Susanville and Eureka are really different from San Francisco or South Lake Tahoe.

The bill also doesn't eliminate single family zoning everywhere, things like no sewers (so have to use septic) still apply to necessarily reduced density.

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Post by xxpor »

umvi wrote: post #3

California is a big state. Surely this only bans single family zoning in egregious areas like San Francisco and not other parts of California that don't have a housing crisis?

The onus should be these "other places" to justify their egregious violation of property rights. The default should be people can build what they want as long as conforms to the building code.

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Post by WaxProlix »

personjerry wrote: post #11

I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable. With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever. Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most Ame…

I wonder how many people will go from "I can afford a single family house in SF" to "I cannot afford a single family house in SF" as a result of this bill.

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Post by colechristensen »

meowtimemania wrote: post #2

Surprised there aren’t more comments here. This is great news for affordable housing right?

Has there ever been an effort of freeing up high density construction that resulted in lower housing prices?

In the places I lived, new construction of big apartment complexes was correlated with prices going up. The new buildings charged more for rent, people paid it, and the surrounding housing followed.

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Post by gnopgnip »

personjerry wrote: post #11

I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable. With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever. Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most Ame…

Allowing multifamily homes to be built means people that want multifamily homes can have them. The other 98% of the land won't face the same pressure and it can bring down prices for everyone.

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Post by poopypoopington »

personjerry wrote: post #11

I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable. With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever. Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most Ame…

Your comment makes no sense. Building more housing means that housing costs will go down, making it way more likely that you WILL "be able to afford a single family home -- the American dream when you settle down..."

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Post by xxpor »

personjerry wrote: post #11

I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable. With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever. Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most Ame…

How can you not see the cognitive dissonance in your own comment?

The reason why everyone lives in tiny apartments and then moves to a cheaper area is SF is largely covered by single family homes, and building anything else is subject to so much process it drives costs up to the moon!

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