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As much as I appreciate all these articles expounding the plethora of issues stemming from housing in the Bay Area, I can't help but feel thoroughly discouraged.

It seems that despite an abundance of chatter, we'll never see any change. If things were going to be fundamentally different, any time soon, we'd see indications of that. Instead it's just articles. Articles, on articles, on articles.

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Don't be discouraged! YIMBY groups are popping up all over the Bay Area working to make a difference in their cities. Join a group's mailing list and show up at your city council when they ask you to. Easy. Bring enough friends and we'll see real change.

Live in Palo Alto: paloaltoforward.com Live in Menlo Park? www.imaginemenlo.com Mountain View? http://balancedmv.org/ San Francisco? http://www.sfbarf.org/

Some headlines: http://gizmodo.com/yimby-groups-are-organizing-across-the-us... https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/who-are-yimby-first-meeting...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/06/30/what-is-a-...

The sfyimby people are quite active - they go to local meetings, get out the vote and otherwise engage with the political process.

I think that California will eventually be forced to change as more and more people migrate to states to like Washington. The data only goes through 2010, but the Tax Foundation has a nice table for net migrations from state to state. [1] Also, anecdotally, try call up a moving company and inquiring about a move from the Bay Area to Seattle. The typical response I received was, "Oh, no problem. We have a steady stream of trucks moving people up there."

[1] http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/migration/

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