Will this help to drop prices of homes in San Jose? I remember a lot of realtors selling the future of google
Downtown San Jose has been on an overall downward trend since the start of covid lock down.
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#12I look forward to a world where we have 80 acres of housing rather than 80 acres of human hamster wheels.
Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
Re: Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
#13I look forward to a world where we have 80 acres of housing rather than 80 acres of human hamster wheels.
How many acres of housing would this have had? I honestly have no conception of how much space 4,000 people take up
The average lot size for a single-family home in California is roughly 1/5 acre, so 80 acres would be somewhere around 400 homes. Probably more like 300 after accounting for streets and stuff. Three-story apartment building are around 25 units per acre.
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Downtown San Jose has been on an overall downward trend since the start of covid lock down.
Any links?
Yes it’s been mostly people not needing to be in the office following post Covid work from home policies, causing people to move from areas where the main attractor was being close to their in person job.
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Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
Which problem? Of humans that aren’t homeless?
In the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap.
Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
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Which problem? Of humans that aren’t homeless?
In the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap. Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
You can put up a tent in my back yard if you want.
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#20Will this help to drop prices of homes in San Jose? I remember a lot of realtors selling the future of google
data points to no:
https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/4th-look-at-local-hous...
prices may not rise but there’s no inventory.