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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by alphonsegaston on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:54PM (#15039112)
Politics in the US are controlled by the rich, so the idea that "the people" are choosing to deal with the consequences of this housing crisis is absurd.

What's happening is that the wealthy are externalizing all the suffering caused by their voracious rent-seeking onto those beneath them, including middle class developers who think their interests align with them (they don't).

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by lisper on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:36PM (#15039520)
I don't understand why you're being downvoted because I think your comment is perfectly valid and you are entirely correct. Nonetheless, this is the system that we have, and the housing situation in the SFBA is a product of that system. If you think it's a problem you need to change the system, not the symptom.
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