Episode 1: "Isn't There An App For That?"
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Dyan Ruiz, Joseph Smooke | 04/09/2019
Meet Curtis, a High School teacher, and Riley, a tech gig worker, in their micro-unit in San Francisco. They've just received a rent increase and need to figure out how to keep their growing family in the City.
Notes for Episode 1
RILEY
Let's get going. We've got a lot of house-hunting to do.
CURTIS
I hope we find something! I don't want to commute three hours a day like some other teachers.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/19/is-the-bay-area-becoming-a-21-county-megaregion/
RILEY
I'm bringing Olive with us!
CURTIS
Come on Riley. Do we really need artificial intelligence to help us find a new place?
RILEY
If I can get food delivered at 3am for my crazy cravings, then why can't an app make housing easier? Besides, OLIVE teaches and learns too!
CURTIS, I know we're not stackin' the loot...
But with two incomes -- part-time coding and full time teaching -- we should be ok, right?"
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/highest-paying-entry-level-tech-jobs-2019
OLIVE
The average price of a 2 bedroom home in San Francisco is $1.3 million.
Zillow evaluation of “median home value” in San Francisco
https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/
Trulia evaluation of median sales price
https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/market-trends/
The average rent for a 2 bedroom apartment is $4,500 a month.
RentJungle evaluation of rent trends in SF
https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends
CURTIS
Check this out!
RILEY
(reading headline) San Francisco Housing Crisis Spurs Calls for Less Rules
CURTIS
Mayor Chen mentioned this to me when she dropped off her son at my class yesterday. San Francisco hasn't built enough housing for years and now we're paying the price.
OLIVE
San Francisco is the second-most densely populated city in the United States.
https://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/articles/the-most-dense-cities-in-america
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density
CURTIS
See, the supply hasn't kept up with the demand!
OLIVE
From 1950 to 2013, San Francisco built two new housing units for every new person.
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty50.htm
Chart of data from the US Census
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15t3KSAlBXhK1ZUS_CScyH5okZsXz8v9v7_QwjDw8PzU/edit#gid=0
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty50.htm’
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocountycalifornia/PST045218
And as of 2015, there's 30,000 vacant units in San Francisco.
US Census ACS 2017 data
CURTIS
I've never heard these stats before. If there's so much housing and so many vacant units, then why is housing so expensive?
RILEY
This does seem really complicated, but I'm sure Olive can figure it out!
CURTIS
I have a friend who's a developer. HE CAN help us figure this out.
