Interesting article I came across, describing attempts to fix housing shortages for lower income...

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5. Thanks for responding ... scarcity would make sense in making demand for housing (pricing etc., ...

so outrageous in pricing (or maybe not so outrageous in pricing, just that not everyone can live in SF, LA, Chicago, NYC, Miami, Dallas/FW, etc.)...however, the author of the article does make the point that jobs tend to gravitate in these localities, thus the demand is somewhat being driven by the 'lopsided' job market. I kind of thought the job market was starting to move away from high cost of living cities so they could find a pool of workers could be live/work in these affordable areas.

And you're absolutely right, blaming 'liberals' for the whole problem...I certainly don't agree w/ that sentiment (and I didn't detect a slant towards liberals vs. right wing in the article, perhaps I didn't catch).

One thing we're seeing in STLMO is that we've got a few people moving back from Calif to MO since housing is so affordable compared to Calif/elsewhere. As a MO resident, I do somewhat resent the fact that these out of state residents, even though they may have had a much smaller home than I (Calif. vs. STLMO) were able to uptick into more expensive homes in STLMO despite all of the work I've put into my home (and thus wouldn't be able to reciprocate (STLMO to Calif). Seems lopsided. Oh well, I really wouldn't want to live in CA (vs. here in MO, friends are here), and at least most of the folks from CA miss CA, but hey, that's the price they pay in order to get a bigger home, paid for, in MO vs. CA.