How much housing should be built across the entire San Francisco Bay Area to deal with the current region-wide housing shortage?

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%

I think those numbers are going to be a lot higher in the burbs and lower in the core counties. San Mateo County is nowhere near 1.2% a year

But it's better for the environment to have the growth in the denser core than to sprawl outward, so I think it's critical to look at metro area growth as a whole.