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Walking to the train station and the subsequent ride to work is one of my favorite parts of the day. Riding the train is such a wonderful time to think and reflect while the world goes by, total bliss.

Hoping to see the area around Peterson/Ridge continue to get built up!

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Yeah, I'm thinking based 🚂🚂🚂

I appreciate your thoughts on this, and would agree that so much of the damage with regards to housing stock is done right here -- where natural growth would have led to a small, incremental increase in units, that has been constricted. Big issue.

One of the greatest tragedies of 2008 was the levelling of so many local builders, those who were really connected with an area and invested in the community. Sad.

What would you suggest as an alternative if not the market? Social housing? I am also okay with that as a supplement, to be honest, but I don't think it can do it all on its lonesome.

Land isn't housing. An acre can have hundreds of housing units on it, or one.

Increasing supply lowers costs -- I highly recommend checking out this article. I don't know about the specific situation in Palo Alto, though.

www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

I agree to an extent. A local example I can think of is builders tearing down multifamily buildings and replacing them with single family homes, but I feel that an increasing supply of units, regardless of price point, will lower cost. People will move into nicer units and vacate theirs.

Definitely. I think people have the corporate ownership piece twisted around: corporate home ownership doesn't cause (by itself) high home prices, high home prices cause corporate ownership. They buy homes because they are an amazing investment, spurred on by supply constraints.

Most people blame other factors -- corporate ownership of housing, greedy homeowners, etc.

I don't understand for a second how the concept of supply and demand is controversial to so many. Beyond that, the vilification of home builders is so confusing to me.

In Chicago ist es (zum Glück) nicht zu kompliziert. Die Bus- und Bahn-Systeme (CTA und Metra) haben eine gemeinsame App, NFC-Karte, usw.

For the most part, it does. Lower income people mostly don't drive into Manhattan, they take transit. This is a tax on wealthier car owners.

Ja, war einfach eine Blase.

I Saw The TV Glow was amazing, I'm so glad that my fiancée and I went to see it on a whim, so worth it.