What I learned in Threshold 2008

So marknau and gunga_galunga asked what came out of Threshold 2008.

The most important thing I learned is that cities and counties in California get more revenue from commercial use of land than residential use of land. Because of this, there has been disproportionate investment rates leading to an imbalance. So if you want to solve the problem on a smaller region basis, the imbalance needs to be corrected. Ways to solve the problem include:

1) drive out business
2) build more housing
3) a combination of the two
4) or push the solution out to the broader

But until the underlying incentive bias is corrected, the problem will persist. There seemed to be very little political will to correct this revenue bias. Ergo, there will be no solution until the system collapses under it's own weight.