Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by komali2 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:12PM (#18078090)

Perhaps, then, SF is not as liberal as people assume?

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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by kenmicklas on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:15PM (#18078129)

It's really not. SF public policy can barely be counted as liberal and seeing people on HN calling it "leftist" is maddening.

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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by refurb on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:49PM (#18080925)

"No true Scotsman"

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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by deepakhj on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:39PM (#18078365)

Lots of people in the bay area think the techies caused the housing crisis.

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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by hfdgiutdryg on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:49PM (#18078475)

I was invited to a tent-covered block party in SF by a friend active in politics and the Asian-American scene. I was told that the party was being thrown by a Chinese family that owned something like 30% of SF property. I have no way of verifying this.

My point being that money, in one way or another, caused the housing crisis, and it may not have anything to do with liberal vs conservative, zoning, regulations, or prop 13. SF is an iconic city, and money will always flow there. Meanwhile, virtually everyone I knew in SF was a renter, and most of them were in tech. The only ones I knew who owned had pre-IPO Google money or made it to Google Staff positions.

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