With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees

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38. OK, then high rents are there to stay for a while

As long as more people want to live in SFO than SFO can fit, that's going to drive rents arbitrarily high unless we set up a Danton-esque "Housing Committee".

If higher density really isn't possible (and I disagree with you on that -- there's a lot of room between where SFO is now and "skyscrapers", though I know I introduced that word), then you guys absolutely need to fix regional transit, yesterday. My wife is from Fremont, which isn't cheap but is certainly much more affordable. There needs to be a functioning train from there to Oakland and SFO.

That said, density doesn't have to only be in SFO proper: Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc. could build much, much more densely than they are, and should.

In the bigger perspective, this return to urban centers by rich people is exactly what urban activists were calling for for decades when they decried "white flight". The rest of the Bay just needs to catch up.