How much housing should be built across the entire San Francisco Bay Area to deal with the current region-wide housing shortage?
10% 50,000 units/year
7% 100,000 units/year
10% 200,000 units/year
72% 400,000 units/year
29 votes • Final results

Oct 3, 2018 · 6:36 PM UTC

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The poll choices correspond to 1.8%, 3.6%, 7.1%, and 14.3% annual growth rates. For comparison, annual population growth rates in the bay area were: 2010-2017: 1.2% 2000-2010: 0.5% 1990-2000: 1.2% 1980-1990: 1.5% 1970-1980: 1.1% 1960-1970: 2.4% 1950-1960: 3.1% 1940-1950: 4.5%
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Replying to @davidbaron
50% of current housing / years until 2050, IIRC
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That would be around 44,000 units/year. That's also 1.3% growth per year, which is only a hair more than the (housing-constrained) 2010-2017 population growth rate of 1.2% per year.