Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San Francisco

Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by davidw on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:49PM (#11506687)

> A lot of quality of life problems will crop up as density rises.

Actually, as long as you allow mixed-use areas, density works out pretty well. What doesn't work is one huge skyscraper all by itself. Vastly preferable is larger areas of lower buildings, which can be anywhere from 2-3 stories, to 5-6, or higher as needs be.

Source: I spent most of the past 15 year in Europe and greatly enjoyed it.

Also: San Francisco is already kind of dense - it's not exactly rural suburbia.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by aetherson on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:54PM (#11506726)

San Francisco is the second densest large city in the US (after New York).

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by davidw on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:56PM (#11506739)

Indeed, but it's far less dense than places like Paris, where people mostly seem to lead fairly happy lives.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by aetherson on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:07PM (#11506833)

Sure, though Paris may have better transit than SF.

But from the commentariat of HN, you'd think that SF had the density of Dallas or something. Just pointing out that it's already pretty dense.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by davidw on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:08PM (#11506842)

> Sure, though Paris may have better transit than SF.

Density and better public transportation kind of go hand in hand. One before the other probably doesn't work very well.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by wbl on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:52PM (#11506706)

Stand on Twin Peaks, look south, and tell me SF is dense.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by davidw on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:55PM (#11506727)

My point is that it is denser than your average burb in the US already. People don't move to SF because they think they're going to have a single story ranch house with a big yard, so by increasing density, you're not radically changing things.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by sdenton4 on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:56PM (#11506737)

Yeah, can we kick all those unproductive corpses out of Colma? (only-half-joking.)

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by Johnny555 on Friday April 15, 2016 @04:35PM (#11507437)

Why not? A lot of them were moved there from SF in the first place - may as well keep moving them south:

http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/dark-history-san-franciscos-...

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