More than one-third of schoolchildren are homeless in shadow of Silicon Valley

Please cite your sources. The rent-seeking is one of 3 forms of microeconomic market inefficiencies (the others are [negative] externalities and information asymmetry).

Prices rise because of scarcity. Zoning density restrictions causes scarcity. "rent-seeking" is use of politics or other means to create a market inefficiency that helps a special interest gain increased wealth, not through wealth creation. Zoning density restriction are from politics.

There is universal understanding that zoning density restrictions (which is using politics to create scarcity) create higher housing costs. I don't know anyone who states that zoning density restrictions do not cause higher housing costs.

So, please cite your source.

Think about the technical inaccuracies you see in articles concerning subject matter you're an expert in, or an event you were witness to. That's par for the course in most articles, few journalists bother to understand what it is they're writing about, or probably don't have time to. Then go into how journalism is ratings driven and going through huge cutbacks, and you have standards where it's more important an article be provocative and feed into their readership's confirmation bias than make people think or propose solutions or only work with hard facts. It's more provocative to blame white technocrats than government or landowners for not wanting an population density to go up because they like their views or impact the environment or it would devalue their property.

Of course, my opinion is Silicon Valley should just not be there. Anywhere with a high barrier to entry of cost of living at that level will be discriminatory, also, what good is making that much money if most of it getting sunk into cost of basic living that doesn't improve your quality of life or meet the life style of someone making half as much somewhere else has and creates issues for those that lived there that don't work in tech. Tech needs to spread out, so there is space for others. You would think of all industries, physical proximity would be less of a factor.

While the Hernandez-Goff agrees that they are systemic problems, she does not mention how to address housing shortages. Many think that one needs to spend money to create more (affordable) housing, but the real solution is simply to address the market inefficiency caused to benefit special interest groups.

That she cites wage stagnation and inequality makes it sound like she doesn't understand the zoning density restriction because eliminating the rent-seeking zoning law restrictions eliminates the inequality and wage stagnation is not an issue because housing costs will drop meaning people can afford more on the same wages.

That statement might be true if there was not technology that enabled us to build tall buildings -- steel frames and elevators for example.

Fix the zoning density restrictions and the markets will automatically fix the expensive housing regardless of the demand.

Come to Manhattan and you'll see what I mean.

It's not "race-baiting" to accurately acknowledge that white flight happened. Demographic trends show white people moving back to the cities, leaving minorities without a sure place to live or a rooted community to belong to, usually because of the connection of class and mobility.