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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by grillvogel on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:49PM (#11270457)
>The only solution to the problem is for the city to build its way out of it.

no, the only solution is to improve transit and infrastructure

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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by gozur88 on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:29PM (#11271407)
I wouldn't say this is the only solution, but I think it's the best one. "Affordable housing" gives you long waiting lists and too many opportunities for political patronage and graft.
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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by CalRobert on Friday March 11, 2016 @07:16PM (#11270571)
How does that help? We can build really nice trains to low density suburbia?
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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by DrScump on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:50PM (#11271452)
They could help a lot simply by adding capacity to existing transit, especially CalTrain and BART.

BART gets so overloaded that smart people wanting to board downstream of the choke points take a train the wrong direction for a few stops to get a seat by boarding upstream of the rush.

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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by w1ntermute on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:57PM (#11270488)
How about both?
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