re: $250,000 income qualifies you for subsidized housing

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So the bay area doesn't need firefighters, teachers, police, etc?

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Of course. And no one is forcing them to buy $800K real estate.

650sf studio apartment not big enough for your family? Move somewhere else you can afford. I'm sure that firefighters, teachers, and police are needed elsewhere than just the bay area.

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It's not hard to understand. You don't have a right to live wherever you want unless you can pay for your property/home.

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But this is a community deciding to subsidize on their own because they desire these people in their city. I don't see the problem.

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That's their choice. What's their income? If it's 250k, they prob a my have 1M dollar homes in Modesto.

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It is their choice. I was just pointing out the lengths some people will go to get into a reasonable home.

The 4 of them fall into a "lab tech" grouping. They all have community college technical degrees, and none of them makes over $100K. Three own homes in Modesto. One is actually from Merced. All 4 homes are 1500 ft range ranch houses.

If they tried to get something in the Bay Area, they would get a place they don't want in an area they wouldn't want to live in.

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Of course. And no one is forcing them to buy $800K real estate.

650sf studio apartment not big enough for your family? Move somewhere else you can afford. I'm sure that firefighters, teachers, and police are needed elsewhere than just the bay area.

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Exactly, but that will create a huge, potentially very dangerous, shortfall for these jobs. You have the potential of crime skyrocketing without a proper police presence.

People are there in large quantity because the jobs are there. They don't need to subsidize housing, they need to reconfigure housing. Fewer homes and more sky scrapers is how you fit more people into the same location more cost effectively. Yeah you lose the yard and the white picket fence, but that's what nice parks are for.

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But this is a community deciding to subsidize on their own because they desire these people in their city. I don't see the problem.

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Understood, and I'm glad to see this be a community decision. I'm just explaining why it will likely fail/cause more problems in the future. I'd be willing to bet that this causes housing prices in the area to go up even more.

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Exactly, but that will create a huge, potentially very dangerous, shortfall for these jobs

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That was the point in posting the article. An area is pricing out an entire class, which includes service industry that they depend on.

Yes, supply and demand will eventually kick in.

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Exactly, but that will create a huge, potentially very dangerous, shortfall for these jobs. You have the potential of crime skyrocketing without a proper police presence.

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If this happens, then there will be less demand to live in such a city, and costs of living will go down to attract people.

If a company cannot attract employees to the city where its jobs are, then the company will either need to raise salaries or relocate to a more desirable location.

I know that may not matter to some, but that is a townhome, not a standalone single family home.

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Relative term when much of Uptown is within walking distance from an undesirable neighborhood.

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Every part of the city is within walking distance from an undesirable neighborhood.