Speaking of housing numbers, I'd like to see the Bay Area's pro-housing folks have a clearer definition of success.
Newsom's support for 3.5 million new housing units in California by 2025 seems in the realm of numbers that might help. Could swing my vote.
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Maybe success is construction of: San Francisco: 50,000 units/year Oakland: 40,000 Berkeley: 10,000 other on BART/Caltrain: 100,000 other: 0
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I know people who think this is unrealistic, and people who think this is far too small relative to what we should do for the environment.
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Great to see Moretti's op-ed, but even better if economists offered estimates of how construction would help prices.
Just like fires, bad housing policies in California can carry horrendous social and environmental costs nyti.ms/2AiQlMo

Nov 4, 2017 · 10:20 PM UTC