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Uh, no.
Poor Kids of Silicon Valley
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#22I don't think the solution is as simple as 'building more housing'(aka giving permits). It would drive down the prices somewhat, but what's to stop more engineers from moving in/shortening their own commutes etc? I think the term we're looking for is 'build low-income housing'. That would make it more likely that people who need it get it.
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#23Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why is it reasonable to think that a single mother with a low income should be able to afford to live in San Mateo?
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#24Didn't read due to ridiculous web design. I don't think I should have to click between every sentence, nor should I be subjected to a non-standard user interface.
I guess you aren't terribly familiar with slide shows.
Theoretically this is a web browser not a slide projector.
Its cutesy, but distracts from the message.
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#25This may not be the most popular thing to say, but ... Just move? If you are the head of a large household living in an area where the cost of living is too high to support your dependents, you would do a whole lot of good for them and yourself by starting new in some other part of the country. At the very least it would be wise to relocate across the Bay. I realize that people have families, social networks, and sma…
It costs a lot to move, especially when you are unskilled and have no idea if you will be able to find employment wherever you end up. It is made worse when you are participating in any sort of social safety net because you don't know if you'll have that available when you get wherever the grass is greener. And that says nothing about social and familial networks.
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#26It skips some important points. The cost of living is high due to zoning laws and a lack of building. Subsidizing families' rent will just make existing landlords richer. It would just drive rents up further. What is needed to get fewer people bidding on the same unit. If landlords are finding <1 suitable tenants per vacancy then suddenly it becomes a renter's market.
This may not be too popular, but subsidizing housing for the poor in Silicon Valley will drive up rents for the people in the middle who are not receiving the subsidy.
And besides, the subsidies would be crazyyy because of the existing prices. What would help those in need without affecting the prices is building/assigning/requiring certain percentage of new housing projects to include low-income housing (I've mentioned this elsewhere in the thread).
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#28Didn't read due to ridiculous web design. I don't think I should have to click between every sentence, nor should I be subjected to a non-standard user interface.
I guess you aren't terribly familiar with slide shows.
The slide show worked well for the visual content (of which there was a lot), but there was also a lot of content that would be better suited to a regular article.
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#29Is there any way to read the article in a Web 1.0 manner, with paragraphs and inline media? I like that CNN is trying to present content in a new manner but that felt like I was reading the slides of a conference presentation. At some point I even turned on the sound to make sure I wasn't missing the embedded speaker's audio.