Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
by BurningFrog on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:38AM
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> it's not going to dramatically change everything about this city overnight.
Your post I responded to talked about 15 years, not overnight. I absolutely think SF could have been transformed with a different policy if starting in 2001.
Even without any immigrants, there are an enormous amount of construction workers among our 300 million US citizens.
The idea that it's so incredibly hard to build a lot of housing over 15 years is disproven by the many successful big cities that actually do it.
> This dream of in-fill development being a simple cure-all to San Francisco's housing ills
Again, nobody is talking about a simple cure-all in three easy $19.95 payments.
Your post I responded to talked about 15 years, not overnight. I absolutely think SF could have been transformed with a different policy if starting in 2001.
Even without any immigrants, there are an enormous amount of construction workers among our 300 million US citizens.
The idea that it's so incredibly hard to build a lot of housing over 15 years is disproven by the many successful big cities that actually do it.
> This dream of in-fill development being a simple cure-all to San Francisco's housing ills
Again, nobody is talking about a simple cure-all in three easy $19.95 payments.