The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing Crisis
March 11, 2024
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as posted by the channelFor years, a mysterious company has been buying farmland on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, eventually putting together a plot twice the size of San Francisco.
At every step, those behind the company kept their plans for the land shrouded in secrecy. Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The Times, figured out what they were up to.
GuestConor Dougherty () , an economics reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Tech industry investors spent roughly $900 million buying land () to build a dream city in a rural part of the Bay Area.
• In Solano County, Calif., a who’s who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families have been there for generations don’t want to sell the land () .
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