&gt;  Big cities deal with this all over, so how do they deal with this &quot;problem,&quot;<p>As far as I can tell, they simply don&#x27;t. I don&#x27;t think there is any city that &quot;deals with it&quot;, or even tries to, in any way.<p>Every city I can think of that has value in living in, is experiencing explosive bubble-like growth in them. Even the supposedly &quot;cheap&quot; or &quot;low cost of living&quot; cities are undergoing this process.<p>I think most cities secretly <i>want</i> this to happen, since it leads to higher property taxes and drives out members of their community they consider less desirable.