Not enough housing? Move to the sticks, survey says

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Not-enough-housing-Move-to-the-sticks-survey-7379779.php

The solution to the woeful lack of housing in the Bay Area is pretty simple, if you ask residents of the nine counties surrounding San Francisco Bay — funnel the late-comers out to the sticks.

That was the conclusion of the majority of residents who responded to a poll on solutions to the housing shortage released Wednesday by the Bay Area Council, a business-sponsored public policy advocacy group.

The results were not as supportive of the traditional solutions that emphasize sustainability — like in-fill housing and transit-oriented development — as the experts would have liked. Instead of building more housing in the Bay Area, 60 percent of the respondents said they would prefer housing to be built outside the region. The outliers who need to get to the Bay Area to work would be best served by improving transportation out there in the boonies, according to the poll....

“I think it’s really important for workers to live near where they work,” said Sarah Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee in San Francisco. “Our neighbors in wealthy suburbs need to stop pretending that they don’t need to provide housing. San Francisco is the densest city in the country. If the South Bay built housing equal to the number of jobs they put in there, we wouldn’t have the kind of housing problem we have.”

Ever been down here, Sarah? The reason all the housing is being built in SF and not $iliValley is that, given the choice, no one would want to live here.

[2naSalit]

1. Yeah, move to the sticks

and then try commuting in already insane traffic and keep on polluting 'cause who cares about the biosphere and breathable air? How about fixing the problems where you're at? No matter where you go there YOU are.

[floriduck]

2. It's more of the We Have Ours, We Don't Care About You crowd.

I hear that sentiment from Republicans and Clinton supporters a lot. Very sad and disturbing indeed.

[OregonBlue]

4. Huh? Why did you feel it necessary to take the swipe at Clinton supporters? Or do you just

enjoy stirring things up for your own entertainment?

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

3. Move to the country...

...and it won't be rural anymore.

The biggest voluntary nightmare that people sign up for are known as 'extreme commutes' of two hours or more each way every day.

Anything over an hour sucks really bad.

[SheilaT]

5. I watched a piece on TV, probably some PBS program

some years back showing some bedroom community of Los Angeles that was almost totally deserted during the day, to the point where most businesses were not open normal daytime hours. People were commuting, mostly by van pools, about 90 minutes each way to their jobs.

Personally, I have never been a fan of a long commute of any sort, and have always lived pretty close to any job I've ever taken.

[Auggie]

6. Pretty soon the sticks are going to include Nevada

[KamaAina]

7. That'd be kind of a crapshoot, don't you think?

[Auggie]

8. I wouldn't bet against it

[KamaAina]

9. Naw. The commute's too long. No dice.

[Auggie]

10. Perhaps half way then. It's in the cards.