Tech employees are in the same boat as the locals: they can't own homes either, and they are constantly treading water with long hours and heavy ageism to keep making money that keeps them in the middle class in the Bay Area. It's the homeowners who have actively lobbied against <i>any</i> development who are the real culprits here.<p>That is not to mention the utter failure of Bay Area towns to figure out mass transit that actually works, which would have averted this current catastrophe.