The tech and finance titans pushed for aggressive housing development in the Bay Area. Now they’re buying up land to build a new metropolis.
, and others, have improved the lives of millions of people and appear much more contingent than inevitable,” he writes. “Maybe there could be far more of them.”
Shanti Singh, a housing justice advocate who has clashed with California YIMBY, said the Solano County project backers had a “classic” mentality of “don’t infringe on the market, don’t tax us, and let developers build housing wherever.” Brian Brokaw, a spokesperson for California Forever, said the group “assembled a team of housing experts to design this project in partnership with the residents of Solano County.”
California Forever investor Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the Emerson Project and the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also pledged $3.5 billion to fight climate-change over the next decade.
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