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Article: Do you know the cost of San Jose? The high cost of low growth. (Citings).(Housing costs)
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- March 1, 2003
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THE DUBIOUS HONOR of fastest-rising housing costs during the last 25 years belongs to San Jose, California. Housing prices there grew 936 percent over that period, beating out even legendarily expensive San Francisco's 821 percent growth.
Housing demand grew because of the city's Silicon Valley location, the center of the computer and Internet industries during their 1990s gold rush. Meanwhile, supply was restricted thanks to the city's rigorous application of growth control planning dating back to 1970.
Randal O'Toole of the Tho-reau Institute, an Oregon-based free -market environmentalist think tank, estimates that urban growth boundaries that limit ...