<story><title>Silicon Valley&apos;s housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xenadu02</author><text>Very few people bother to vote in non-presidential elections. I keep hammering this point to anyone I meet in the startup scene here in SF. If just 1% of you reading this right now (who live in SF) bothered to vote on a pro-housing basis, we&amp;#x27;d immediately turn into a huge voting bloc that could not be ignored. You should shame your coworkers and remind people in slack channels too. A few thousand NIMBYs currently control SF housing policy. Filling out an online form is all it takes to change that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also really easy: register online and they mail the ballot to you. It&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;Permanent vote by mail&amp;quot;. It takes almost no effort whatsoever.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sos.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;elections&amp;#x2F;voter-registration&amp;#x2F;vote-mail&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sos.ca.gov&amp;#x2F;elections&amp;#x2F;voter-registration&amp;#x2F;vote-mail...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t need a California drivers license. You don&amp;#x27;t need to have lived here for a year. You just have to have the intention to make California your current home (eg not a tourist).&lt;p&gt;For the lazy, SF Yes In My Backyard puts out voting slates of pro-housing politicians and propositions. Just reference that, draw the lines on the ballot, and drop it in the mail. You don&amp;#x27;t even have to buy a stamp.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfyimby.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Silicon Valley&apos;s housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>Why are people so adamantly opposed to density? Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes, but if you think about places like New York, London, and Paris, that argument doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly hold. Those cities are incredibly dense and expensive, but people love living there enough to pay the high prices. People who can live &lt;i&gt;anywhere&lt;/i&gt; choose to live there. I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet that SV could triple its population, and property values would hold or increase. Supply will create it&amp;#x27;s own demand.</text></comment>