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Also, San Mateo county annual population growth numbers:
2010-2017: 1.0%
2000-2010: 0.15%
1990-2000: 0.9%
1980-1990: 1.0%
1970-1980: 0.5%
1960-1970: 2.3%
1950-1960: 6.5%
1940-1950: 7.7%
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.
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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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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.
That rate doesn't quite keep up with *actual* population growth, never mind the demand for additional population growth that's suppressed by housing costs. So I'd think prices would likely continue to rise, although more slowly.
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Hurricane Harvey recovery funds are subject to *huge* racial disparities.
In Taylor Landing, a tiny white affluent Texas town, housing buyout aid comes to $60,000 per resident.
In Beaumont, a large poor majority-minority city, that level is $40.
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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%
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Also worth noting that FDR tried something similar in 1937 and it failed; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judici… . But the court today is being viewed as more of a partisan institution and thus commands less respect; the Garland nomination (and Kavanaugh) continues to move it that way.
More feasible, since it doesn't require constitutional amendment, and ending lifetime tenure would.
(I've also heard a suggestion of staggered 9- or 18-year terms to match up with the number of seats. But again, requires constitutional amendment.)
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To put it another way -- the next time Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and House, they'll increase the Supreme Court to 13 or 15 seats, and it won't be a bigger deal than what happened to Garland. Or, at least, that seems like the least disruptive outcome.
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It's official - @JerryBrownGov has signed our bill w/ @AsmGrayson to increase affordable housing at BART stations! This new law will allow us to simultaneously address housing affordability & traffic congestion in the Bay Area.
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🏡 Governor Brown just signed AB 686 @SantiagoAD53 to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH) and AB 1771 @AsmRichardBloom and SB 828 @Scott_Wiener pertaining to Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) objectives, factors and methodology.
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