Last week the city council in Mountain View, California, took a significant step toward addressing Silicon Valley's housing affordability crisis. The city approved a new planning document for its North Bayshore district that envisions the creation of up to 10,250 units of high-density housing. Mountain View only has about 32,000 households total, so that would be a substantial 32 percent increase
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— Vox
"The big question is whether this represents an isolated victory for housing advocates or whether it's the start of a trend toward denser development in Silicon Valley more broadly."
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...well that and the coming startup bubble burst.
Andrew,
What do you think the effect of a tech bubble burst would be for those of us in the profession of architecture? I've been thinking on this and I haven't the experience in the region to make an intelligent guess.
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