I think there needs to be a real dialogue between the environmental community and the people concerned about affordable housing. We need to see if there is common ground there. The market clearly has taken everything out of reach. He was catatonic with sticker shock at the housing prices. He's now living in Vacaville.
Many folks are in a similar position.
And it looks as though the exodus of people settling for housing in outlying areas may continue, since few planners predict a high-density housing boom just over the horizon. That's what's difficult. In an area like Bennett Valley where the housing is well maintained, in a homogenous neighborhood, you're unlikely to have anyone interested in higher density. . . . You have to wrestle with how it fits in the neighborhood. I wouldn't expect to see those types of changes until they started doing updates and started running out of land.