Urban Air Mobility Coalition for Affordable Housing.
In California’s Bay Area, for every 4 jobs that are created, only 1 new home is added.
This imbalance has helped create an affordable housing and super commuting crisis that is redefining Silicon Valley.
UAMCAH is a coalition coming together in an effort to have statewide regulations amended in support of ushering in an era of mass, zero emission commuter flights.
These amendments are needed so that Urban Air Mobility can become part of the solution to the Bay Area’s housing affordability crisis.
Air Metro, part of the solution?
Low noise, zero emission flight could create an “Air Metro” around the Bay Area which could then be part of the solution to the crisis. High speed transport could be the key to unlocking this Gordian knot as an “Air Metro” would bring most Northern CA residents within commuting range of the Bay Area’s high wage paying employers.
Housing costs are out of control
San Francisco’s median house price is $1.6 million, which means only 14 percent of prospective home buyers can afford the median home price in San Francisco or the $1.65 million median home price in San Mateo.
A prospective home buyer would need to earn at least $345,000 in San Francisco to afford the $8,600 a month in mortgage, taxes and insurance payments, which is more than six times the income needed to buy a median-priced home in the entire U.S
An “Air Transit” system could help
Over 170 organizations including aerospace giants like Airbus, Boeing and Bell alongside innovative companies like Joby and Bye Aerospace are working on bringing Urban Air Mobility vehicles to market. Existing air travel is an order of magnitude safer than traveling by car, yet these new UAM air vehicles are being designed to be even safer than existing large passenger aircraft with innovations like whole aircraft parachutes. Many of the first designs are already undergoing the FAA certification process and we could see commercial operations as soon as 2023.
BUT !
If Uber’s planning application can be rejected in Santa Clara, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, going through a separate planning application for every city and employer in Northern California will ensure that a Vertiport in every Bay Area city will take more than our life-time’s to become a reality.
Suggest a route?
DWA - Yolo County to PAO - Palo Alto the first Bay Area route?
Are you one of the 100,000 commuters that go to the Bay Area every day from Sacramento, or do you travel up from the Bay to the Capital on a regular basis?
Does converting a 2 1/2 hour drive into a 30 minute flight for about $50 each way seem a good idea?
If so, sign up now, give us a little information about your commute needs and we will let you know when that route might become available.
UAMCAH - a coalition lobbying for a legislative agenda in favor of mass, zero emission commuter flights in California
— UAMCAH.com