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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by nix0n on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:29PM (#14649641)
The argument boils down to, "more building, but not here".

This is NIMBYism, regardless of motivation.

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Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:56PM (#14649877)
That's a little uncharitable. NIMBYism is bad, sure, but it might enable building massive tech companies that provide massive consumer surpluses. How much you value "area supports the next Google" versus "area has 500k additional residents at reasonable housing costs", along with how much these trade off against each other, is an open question.
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