It seems though that most people want to live where rents are already the highest (which is why rents are high!). The nurse quoted in the article who drives 2 hours to reach SF wants to work closer to her hospital in the city. That job in particular is hard to do remotely.

From a practical standpoint, it seems like a large percentage of people in the Bay Area would prefer to live in the City or very near it. Yet, this is a physical impossibility. The ways to allocate scarce resources comes down to two methods: let the market decide or let government decide. Either way, folks will be left out.