Programmers who don't have a family don't want to live in Hayward or the San L's. None of their friends will live there, very few will visit, and there's nothing there to do if they did. This goes for pretty much the entire 880 and 580 corridors between Seminary and 237.
To be fair, for the past 165 years you haven't been required to be a property owner in order to vote. Also, it wasn't the voters who took Santa Clara and San Mateo counties out of the BART District, delaying even the possibility of high-speed mass transit to those areas until state action was taken this millenium.
No, but you have to live there to vote. If a community consists primarily of homeowners, and not renters, the interests of the homeowners are what will be reflected.
Maybe that's OK, I suppose, but in this case it has meant finding a place to rent is very difficult.
