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.