<story><title>Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to &quot;market conditions&quot;</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-cost-cutting-ends-deal-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-housing-units/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>My god. The comments here are like they&amp;#x27;re generated by an LLM. &amp;quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Even the slightest awareness of local conditions would have improved these comments. The Google developments suffered from the same opposition any residential developer faces in the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextcity.org&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-said-no-to-google&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextcity.org&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-sa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the towns of the Bay also made a big fuss about &amp;quot;company towns&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For those who aren&amp;#x27;t acquainted with the Bay Area, residents of the region in general strongly oppose any housing. Explanations given range from &amp;quot;The Bay Area is full&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;People shouldn&amp;#x27;t be living like sardines on top of each other&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Where will my friends park when they visit&amp;quot;. A housing project being cancelled after years of opposition is normal not, out of the ordinary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pchristensen</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m very pro-housing, but one valid concern is that residential real estate generally doesn&amp;#x27;t pay its way, especially with school-age children, and California&amp;#x27;s Prop 13 makes this problem worse over time by freezing tax rate growth. So any housing in your municipality is a fiscal negative to start that gets worse over time.&lt;p&gt;Normally I would say that the tax code isn&amp;#x27;t set in stone, but in California&amp;#x27;s case, it is in the state constitution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to &quot;market conditions&quot;</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-cost-cutting-ends-deal-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-housing-units/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>My god. The comments here are like they&amp;#x27;re generated by an LLM. &amp;quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Even the slightest awareness of local conditions would have improved these comments. The Google developments suffered from the same opposition any residential developer faces in the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextcity.org&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-said-no-to-google&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextcity.org&amp;#x2F;features&amp;#x2F;why-one-silicon-valley-city-sa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the towns of the Bay also made a big fuss about &amp;quot;company towns&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For those who aren&amp;#x27;t acquainted with the Bay Area, residents of the region in general strongly oppose any housing. Explanations given range from &amp;quot;The Bay Area is full&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;People shouldn&amp;#x27;t be living like sardines on top of each other&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Where will my friends park when they visit&amp;quot;. A housing project being cancelled after years of opposition is normal not, out of the ordinary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p_j_w</author><text>&amp;gt;The comments here are like they&amp;#x27;re generated by an LLM. &amp;quot;Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I understand why people post such low effort trash: &amp;quot;make number bigger&amp;quot;. What I don&amp;#x27;t quite understand is why people upvote the same dorky joke they&amp;#x27;ve seen others post a million times. It&amp;#x27;s baffling to me.</text></comment>