> Developers don't have any natural incentive to do that.
Unless they're colluding, they'll keep building if it's profitable to do so. And there's a lot of margin for that in SF, especially if they get rid of some of the big obstacles.
There are various articles about 'filtering' and how it's not happening in cities like SF. Here's one - there are probably better ones:
I know SV is a separate entity (entities, actually), but it's obviously very closely related.
People in the US are going to have to figure out density sooner or later. This stuff has knock-on effects all up and down the west coast. Lots of people move here to Bend to escape the bay area, and are driving up local prices...
"Filtering" -- interesting dynamic. So why isn't filtering working in SF?
> "Filtering is the idea that, as new market-rate housing is built, higher-income people move into it, leaving behind older housing stock for lower-income people."
It does, there was an article here a few weeks ago where they had studied gentrification in SF and found that the areas that allowed more new (luxury) apartment construction had less reduction in poor people living in the area compared to the ones that didn't.
Unless they're colluding, they'll keep building if it's profitable to do so. And there's a lot of margin for that in SF, especially if they get rid of some of the big obstacles.
There are various articles about 'filtering' and how it's not happening in cities like SF. Here's one - there are probably better ones:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/02/19/what-liber...
I know SV is a separate entity (entities, actually), but it's obviously very closely related.
People in the US are going to have to figure out density sooner or later. This stuff has knock-on effects all up and down the west coast. Lots of people move here to Bend to escape the bay area, and are driving up local prices...