“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”
“The world is recognizing you can't keep building 1950s-style ranch houses because we don't have the land anymore. I don't think San Jose is any different. As all cities mature and grapple with land becoming more scarce, there's still a desire to build housing in a community.”
David Vossbrink
“There is a large psychological element behind current housing prices,”
Dean Baker
“It's the biggest market we have, because people don't live in empty houses.”
Delos Smith
“Two separate kitchens in very large houses is not uncommon now.”
Vince Butler
“Other issues include affordable housing. The board has addressed many quality-of-life issues but there are no easy solutions. What drives the economy is tourism. Service folks have to be able to afford to live here.”
Chris Hardee
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