storify of and notes on discussion July 12-17 about new approaches to affordable and transit-served housing in Silicon Valley:
Facebooks's HQ now fully auto-dependent, but sits on disused rail line to #Caltrain, East Bay, & space for housing pic.twitter.com/yp69mE5G9K
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) July 12, 2014
@tmccormick FB could build mixed-use towers to include lux housing, reducing need for transit (all tech giants need to think skyward)
— Brian Davis (@svsfo) July 12, 2014
Brian Davis works for Google in Business Development.
@svsfo phaps.. I was thinking of something exploratory & nearer-term, relocatable modular live/work units deployed by RR lines, eg @houslets
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) July 12, 2014
@svsfo I & @houslets proj looking to connect w/FB/Google/etc employees & groups who might be intrstd to explore new housing/facility ideas.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) July 12, 2014
@tmccormick @houslets great and will learn more; spoke to a couple startups tonight trying to move to SV and housing is their top obstacle
— Brian Davis (@svsfo) July 12, 2014