{"id":32,"date":"2012-05-15T02:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=32"},"modified":"2012-05-15T02:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:02:41","slug":"is-a-lack-of-housing-preventing-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/15\/is-a-lack-of-housing-preventing-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A Lack Of Housing Preventing Innovation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy B. Lee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timothylee\/2012\/05\/10\/why-the-bay-area-should-have-11-million-residents-today\/\">uses<\/a> San Francisco as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2012\/05\/angel-no-more-why-one-of-silicon-valleys-savviest-investors-has-shut-his-wallet\">case study<\/a>. With freer housing policies, he claims the Bay Area would have 11 million rather than 7 million residents:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Among those extra 4 million people would likely have been hundreds of thousands of additional engineers starting new firms or expanding the Google and Facebook workforces. In short, the reason there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much money chasing too few businesses isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that the country is running out of people with good technology ideas. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that bad housing policies mean that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nowhere for additional people to live.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/andrewsullivan\/rApM?a=SW28bW_o8V0:_y1tJAcPac8:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/andrewsullivan\/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/andrewsullivan\/rApM\/~4\/SW28bW_o8V0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/05\/is-a-lack-of-housing-preventing-innovation.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29\">http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/05\/is-a-lack-of-housing-preventing-innovation.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy B. Lee uses San Francisco as a case study. With freer housing policies, he claims the Bay Area would have 11 million rather than 7 million residents: Among those extra 4 million people would likely have been hundreds of thousands of additional engineers starting new firms or expanding the Google and Facebook workforces. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/15\/is-a-lack-of-housing-preventing-innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is A Lack Of Housing Preventing Innovation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}