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This is not entirely true. There are a handful of decent actors (Emeryville and Redwood City come to mind in the Bay Area) but they're absolutely swamped by bad actors like San Francisco, Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc which have massive undersupply of housing relative to the number of jobs they have.

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I don't know that we should let cities like Redwood City off the hook. Between 2000 and 2013 their housing stock expanded by only 2%, whereas the historical pace is 1% per year, or 15% over 14 years. Their history of inaction should not be ignored.

From 1990 to 2007 housing units increased by 9%, outpacing the San Mateo county which grew at 7% over the same period. The growth in the decade after 2000 did slow, that was the period immediately after a major contraction in 2001 of the tech industry

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