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Re:The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups by kevinburke on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:25AM (#14820757)
As an example of how Bay Area housing politics are silly.. there is a document that local governments use that purports to show that building more housing creates demand for even more housing, and use it to justify not building things.

By that logic, these arsons will help reduce rents in Oakland... it makes no sense.

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Re:The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups by CalChris on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:05AM (#14821083)
By that logic, these arsons will help reduce rents in Oakland... it makes no sense.

No. That is a fallacy on your part, denying the antecedent.

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Re:The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups by e40 on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:50PM (#14822910)
I think Kevin was being snarky.
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Re:The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups by jdavis703 on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:19PM (#14823531)
The idea of induced demand can't be discounted, that said building housing doesn't have the same negative impacts as building more highest lane miles, so the fact that it could induce demand is not as bad. Just keep building housing until every person who wants a roof over their head has one.
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Re:The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups by sliverstorm on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:32PM (#14823227)
Maybe it does make sense. I want to live in Oakland even less now.
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