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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by davidw on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:52PM (#11506712)
> Not being able to afford to live in SF is not a quality of life problem.

I would point out that article showing that the poor live longer in places like SF and NY. For others, access to a more productive, dynamic place to work carries a lot of benefits, and excluding them definitely hurts.

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Re:Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San ... by Johnny555 on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:21PM (#11506932)
If you're going to point out an article, you should actually point it out :)

Do you mean this one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/11/where...

Where the map shows that areas up and down the California Coast (not just SF) show longer life for the poor?

However, I'm not sure that longer life correlates strongly with "quality of life" (as someone who watched a loved one undergo long slow decline and live about a year longer than he wanted to).

A homeless person that barely manages to eke out a living on the streets of SF may not be happier than a homeless person in Detroit that largely lives in shelters in Detroit, even if the SF homeless person lives longer.

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