The reality of San Mateo County housing

In the San Mateo Daily Journal, Supervisor Warren Slocum challenges apartment owners to provide one affordable apartment for each of the 80 people displaced by the Hallmark Apartment fire July 7.  It's a good cause and I hope landlords can make it happen.  But it's also a graphic description of the housing problem we have here.
We have more than 700,000 living in the county and 70 people with jobs and income are finding it difficult to find a place to live.  I know of at least four other families currently looking for a new place to live that were not part of the fire disaster and one of them has decided to move in with family... in Bakersfield, because that's the closest they can find housing they can afford.

I know I'm going to get several comments from the usual anonymous sources disagreeing that we need more housing but that argument reminds me of a baseball story.  

Jim Bouton, when pitching for the Yankees, went to the refrigerator to get a Coke and found they were all out. He went to the clubhouse manager and complained and was told, "Hey, every time I fill that thing with Coke, all you guys do is drink it."

That's kind of the argument against housing in the county: if we build it, we'll just get more people.  Folks, they are already here and there are more coming.  We need to find places to put them.