For our housing woes and the fact is weve made our bed in San Francisco in not producing enough housing. Reporter a housing problem that the supervisor says runs much deeper than this latest boom. Our population has grown by about 75,000 in the last decade and over that same time period we produced Something Like 5,000 units of housing. San francisco has always been a boom and bust economy. They go up. We go down. When were down, we want to attract businesses. When were up, we fear the consequences of these businesses. Reporter so every gift has a dark lining sometimes in San Francisco and this is no exception. I also found out its not just tech that is driving this. Its the globalization of the economy. There are a lot of Foreign Investors who want to be in San Francisco right now and theyre willing to pay top dollar whether it be for a tech company or for a house. Elizabeth . Im wondering what does the city gain from the tech boom specifically . Reporter its interesting. In 2010 we w
Of kcbs traffic coming up. Thank you. It sounded like a dump truck dumping its load but a house being remodeled collapsed in the twin peaks area of San Francisco. The house had just been lifted so they could put a new foundation under it. About 10 30 last night, the supports gave way. And the house slid down the hill until a retaining wall stopped it and thats where it sits this morning. It fell just the way we wanted it to because all on the corners of the building which is much stronger and it should somewhat, you know, contain the situation. Inspectors decided not to red tag the house thats downhill from the one that collapsed. They are trying to figure out what happened. Nobody was hurt. Dont pull the plug today the family has one last hope for a 13yearold oakland girl declared brain dead after routine tonsil surgery. There will be one last test to see if theres any brain activity. As joe vazquez reports that test is supposed to happen sometime this morning. Reporter people in the
With elizabeth. Thanks, lawrence. Well get a check of the east bay. Mostly green on our sensors. I think we can show you a live look at westbound 24 traffic. If you are heading out of the caldecott tunnel and towards the macarthur maze, westbound traffic looks good. Its actually the eastbound lanes. They have some roadwork past highway 13 towards the caldecott tunnel until about 6 00 this morning. And heres a live look at our westbound 580 sensors coming through the Altamont Pass, its starting to get crowded now out of tracy continuing to north flynn. And then traffic once again moves at the speed limit. 5 00 roadwork we saw on the bay bridge should be gone and everything looks good between oakland and San Francisco. That is your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you. Thank you. Developing overnight, a house under construction collapsed and moved down a San Francisco hill in the middle of the night. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is in the twin peaks area with more. Cate. Reporter police hav