I'd ask a slightly different question: why is so much of our economic policy centered around new and higher paying jobs in a certain area, in disconnect with the current residents preferences for housing policy? It seems like these things are controlled by very different interests that end up fighting in ways that treat the non-high-income/wealthy existing residents as collateral damage.
We want housing to be more affordable in LA, [a different but still local] we also want Amazon to come to town and bring in a bunch of new workers from out of town. Those two goals seems hard to reconcile.
We want housing to be more affordable in LA, [a different but still local] we also want Amazon to come to town and bring in a bunch of new workers from out of town. Those two goals seems hard to reconcile.