One of the biggest errors we made was taking housing permitting out of the hands of bureaucrats and putting it into homeowners who obviously have a vested interest in seeing supply remain quite frankly under supplied.
If someone speaks up and others agree with it, that personal issue becomes social issue. Citizens created the vision by themselves and we, local government, supported the process, because [a] city is citizens -- [a] city is not the government.
We have fewer firehouses today than we had in the 1960s and the population has nearly doubled since then. There needs to be a holistic approach to how and where we build and to how we provide safety.
Sharp is well aware of the risks of creating 'a two‑class society' where tech workers thrive while hospitality workers are squeezed out of housing. His vision is growth with guardrails: higher‑paid, lower‑footprint jobs that ease pressure on roads, emissions and infrastructure, and give local kids a reason to stay rather than leave for Sydney or London.
Sharp is well aware of the risks of creating "a two‑class society" where tech workers thrive while hospitality workers are squeezed out of housing. His vision is growth with guardrails: higher‑paid, lower‑footprint jobs that ease pressure on roads, emissions and infrastructure, and give local kids a reason to stay rather than leave for Sydney or London.
What disappears isn't just people and buildings, it's memory, belonging, culture. I'm not here with a simple fix. What I'm saying is we must rebuild, but we need to rebuild with identity in mind.
One word answer, housing. It's the original sin in California. We're as dumb as we want to be for decades and decades. Simply, we're not creating enough supply and demand grew. Nimism reigns supreme.
And it is kind of a city in a jungle. A city-state home to 6 million people and all kinds of high-tech companies all surrounded by trees and waterways.
Singapore enacted policies to clean up their waterways, and they were really, really successful. So all of a sudden, instead of having waterways that were filled with filth, we had waterways that were filled with fish. And from the otters' points of view, they were feeding troughs. So they came back.
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