Google has entered into partnership with one of Australia’s biggest construction companies to deliver up to 15,000 new homes in the San Francisco Bay Area in an effort to address housing shortages that it and other tech companies have been accused of causing. As part of its agreement with Lendlease, Google is set to work on the master planning, planning application process and development of up to 15 million square feet of residential, retail, hospitality and community space across three new neighbourhoods in the San Francisco area. Google is to focus specifically on developing its office space within these new mixed communities. Today’s announcement comes just weeks after Google gave its commitment to contribute $1 billion over the next decade for the development of housing both on land that it owns and elsewhere within the San Francisco area. Mr Keegan was responding to Karlin Lillington’s Net Results column in the previous day’s Irish Times in which she warned that Dublin was in danger of developing similar housing problems to those being experienced in San Francisco.

Source: The Irish Times July 18, 2019 12:22 UTC