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An article by Kim-Mai Cutler, from 2014:
[link]
"How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists
(Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)" Look for my new article "How
the Internet Headline Style
Came to Rule: Uninformitive,
Verbose Titles, Explained.".
While this article is certainly not perfect,
at least it's clearly written by someone who
knows something about the local scene.
To check that I went looking for a bio:
"Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist and
columnist for TechCrunch who has worked for
Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street
Journal. She led mobile coverage at Inside
Network, a six-person media startup that was
acquired by WebMediaBrands in 2011. Cutler
attended UC Berkeley and was editor of the student
paper The Daily Californian. She has lived in
London, New York, Buenos Aires and Hanoi and
speaks Spanish and some conversational Vietnamese."
Okay: local enough.
(I tire of the kibitzing
from the other coast.)
Kim-Mai Cultler makes the what should be obvious point
that the Silicon Valley towns have been refusing to
build housing and insist on maintaining extremely low
density, and this is at least, one of the many reasons
people who work there are looking north to San Francisco.
Cutler concludes-- not the first time I've seen
this idea-- that the Bay Area needs a regional
planning agency with the authority to override
local governments. What the area really needs
in housing and transit policies is arguably
being ignored by the governments that exist.
New Urbanism is winning. Why? To a
large extent it's a matter of fashion, Recognizing the mercurial nature
but Kim-Mai Cutler insists it's more a of human desire complicates
matter of demographics. economic predictions, and you
can't have that.
Kim-Mai Cutler buys the idea that
the 'burbs are a Great Place To
Raise Your Kids Up (I was raised out
there, and I disagree).
But she gets points for noticing that
one reason cities seem exciting is the That explains the 1970s right
boring folks ran off leaving room for there: post-"white flight",
the freaks. pre-"great inversion" cities
may well have been dirty and
dangerous, but anyone could get
away with almost anything
there...
But whatever Kim-Mai Cutler's
problems, at least she's not
one of these guys:
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