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Affordable Housing Matters To Business

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: KnowledgePlex
5 July 2003 - 11:00am

San Diego is no longer ranked number one for business; the lack of affordable housing is one factor cited.

San Diego, which formerly ranked as the number one city for business, has fallen from the top spot in two recent studies. According to a Forbes magazine study, San Diego now comes in at number 27. Factoring in taxes, energy costs, office leasing rates and affordable housing hurt San Diego's ranking, according to Forbes.

Full Story: San Diego no longer No. 1 in nation for business
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 25, 2003
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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.
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