https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/19/opinion-how-valley-can-address-traffic-housing-challenges/ > Silicon Valley is the 19th largest economy of the world. But the area has been impacted with a severe lack of affordable housing and painful traffic logjams. This has led to a slow exodus of high tech companies and talent from Silicon Valley. > Skyrocketing housing costs are pushing people farther away from their jobs or out of the Valley altogether. The homeless population in California is 47% of all homeless in the United States. This is a colossal failure on our part. We are losing the diversity of talent as teachers, firefighters and artists no longer can find affordable housing. The Silicon Valley region remains a hotbed of innovation but has created only one housing unit for every six new jobs between 2010 and 2015. We need more housing and housing that is affordable.