Opinion: Does the Bay Area have the water it needs to grow?
It seems as though the two things the Bay Area has the least of are housing and water. The region has a shortfall of 699,000 housing units, which has driven housing costs to astronomical heights, and pushed 35,000 of our neighbors into temporary housing or onto the streets. Our colleagues at San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR),a public policy think tank, have found that the region needs to build an astonishing 2.2 million homes by 2070 to meet future demand and make up for the present shortfall.
-Written by Laura Feinstein, sustainability and resilience policy director at SPUR, a Bay Area public policy think tank; and Anne Thebo, a senior researcher for Pacific Institute, a global water think tank.