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August 25, 2017

SPUR proposes 120,000 new units to help ease housing crisis

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SPUR released an informative report about housing solutions in San Jose that will lead to the development of 120,000 new units by 2030.

“While most of Silicon Valley has a jobs-housing imbalance, with many more jobs than housing units, San Jose has the opposite problem,” the report stated. “San Jose is the only large city in the country to actually lose population during the daytime, because more of its residents work outside the city itself.”

Read the original article at the San Jose Mercury News.