billion to combat the housing crisis, ying it is, "committed to being a part joining me now is rachel myrosenior editor of the silicon valley news desk. hi, rachel. >> hi, scott. >> what were yotting out to do in this year-long project? >> we wanted to find out who were the big players. how do you find that out from a data perspective? you start asth the ssor's office. one of the wonderful things about hang a multi-newsroom collaboration was we were able to have a team of data reporterfrom the mercury news, nbc bay area. going into this data, which is y pretty mline by line, cleaning it up, figuring out . who owns the most la luable land. owns the most >> and so obviously stanford 80iversity is the pound gorilla here by far. and how did they acquire so much land? >> well it all started with leland stanford, the dad of leland jr. who, of course, whom the university is named after. he s one of the original big four railroad barrens, robert from the guilded age. and in addition to purchasing a beautiful knob hill mansion in san francisco, alhe developed the country estate that grew and grew o