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                                             April    16, 2014
                                             June     06, 2014
                                             November 10, 2021

An article by Kim-Mai Cutler, from 2014:
                                                      [link]
  "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists
  (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)"               Look for my new article "How
                                                    the Internet Headline Style
                                                    Came to Rule: Uninformative,
                                                    Verbose Titles, Explained.".
While this article is certainly not perfect,
at least it's clearly written by someone who
knows something about the local scene.

                     To check that I went looking for a bio:

                         "Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist and
                         columnist for TechCrunch who has worked for
                         Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street
                         Journal. She led mobile coverage at Inside
                         Network, a six-person media startup that was
                         acquired by WebMediaBrands in 2011. Cutler
                         attended UC Berkeley and was editor of the student
                         paper The Daily Californian. She has lived in
                         London, New York, Buenos Aires and Hanoi and
                         speaks Spanish and some conversational Vietnamese."

                    Okay: local enough.
                                            (I tire of the kibitzing
                                            from the other coast.)


Kim-Mai Cultler makes the what should be obvious point
that the Silicon Valley towns have been refusing to
build housing and insist on maintaining extremely low
density, and this is at least, one of the many reasons
people who work there are looking north to San Francisco.

Cutler concludes-- not the first time I've seen
this idea-- that the Bay Area needs a regional
planning agency with the authority to override
local governments.  What the area really needs
in housing and transit policies is arguably
being ignored by the governments that exist.


    New Urbanism is winning.  Why?  To a
    large extent it's a matter of fashion,     Recognizing the mercurial nature
    but Kim-Mai Cutler insists it's more a     of human desire complicates
    matter of demographics.                    economic predictions, and you
                                               can't have that.
    Kim-Mai Cutler buys the idea that
    the 'burbs are a Great Place To
    Raise Your Kids Up (I was raised out
    there, and I disagree).

    But she gets points for noticing that
    one reason cities seem exciting is the    That explains the 1970s right
    boring folks ran off leaving room for     there: post-"white flight",
    the freaks.                               pre-"great inversion" cities
                                              may well have been dirty and
                                              dangerous, but anyone could get
                                              away with almost anything
                                              there...


             But whatever Kim-Mai Cutler's
             problems, at least she's not
             one of these guys:

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