Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com)

An anonymous reader quotes the Bay Area Newsgroup: With rental costs skyrocketing and homes out of reach for many, Google has hit on a solution that may help it attract workers to the crushingly expensive Bay Area. The tech giant plans to buy 300 units of modular housing to serve as temporary employee accommodations on its planned "Bay View" campus at NASA's Moffett Field, according to a source familiar with the plan. Experts heralded the move as not only good for Google, but as a potential template for others to follow as the high cost of construction combined with expensive real estate make affordable housing hard to come by... Modular housing has the potential to be "a real game changer" for the Bay Area housing crunch, said Matt Regan, senior vice-president of public policy at the Bay Area Council, a business group of which Google is a member...

The Bay Area boasts many sites suitable for modular rental housing, undeveloped so far largely because the cost of traditional building is too high for the rent the facilities could generate, Regan said. With prefab housing costing up to 50 percent less, "all of a sudden sites like that become economically feasible to develop," Regan said.

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Re:That makes me MAD!

[nine-times]

I'd say a lot of evidence is out there to the contrary. I see much newer vehicles in what we consider poor neighborhoods than what's in my driveway.

You think all poor people are poor because they're irresponsible, and your big evidence is "I've seen poor people that drive a newer car than mine"? I mean, what, you couldn't even find a vague and misleading statistic from the Heritage Foundation to back that up?

one step closer to the revolution! (hah!)

[Thud457]

conditions in the bitmines were deplorable back in '17...
We lost 217 coders to Starbucks butt just in April.