[quote=bearishgurl][quote=The-Shoveler] I was going to say,
And the next 4-6 million people SD expected is to grow will fit where?[/quote]
They can stay back in their double-wide in the state of MO, where they likely have family to help them in the event they are in need of “social services.” CA doesn’t need any more people, ESP of the “low to moderate income” variety.
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I define affordable housing as pretty much anything sub-million. Not affordable as in low income. As for not having a high volume of sales, that is a peculiar SoCal thing, we have very high population and very low housing sales. When saying we need 7000 a month, something SD has never come close to, I’m talking to have the kind of fluidity in availability of housing that will keep from what you’re seeing happen.
I’m talking what kind of volume of listings and sales a county like SD needs, with 3 million inhabits and a million+ household units to not have what amounts to chronic scarcity. At the moment SD county has about 5400 listings. Less than 0.5% of the housing stock is for sale.
Again, as for Marin or SF county, most people residing in Marin, don’t make their living in Marin. As for SF, they’re having some real problems with traffic jams OUT of the city in the morning as the youthful workers working in silicon valley and living in the city.
As for not building, that would be interesting. But, I really doubt the population will stop coming. In fact, I think not building and not providing adequate housing will actually have the opposite effect that you desire, actually increasing the amount of low and poverty level inhabits. They’re use to living in substandard conditions where-as mid-high level incomes know they can have more.
