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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by kortilla on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:53AM (#19501370)
Tech jobs have little to do with SFs housing problem, tech is just a convenient scapegoat. In the 80s the blame was finance.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by umeshunni on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:04AM (#19501510)
Meanwhile, every time there's a proposal to increase density and build more housing, the local NIMBYs show up and protest.

My neighborhood association just sent us this today:

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/TvX3679

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by rayiner on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:24AM (#19501797)
San Francisco sounds like such a hellscape. Apparently, most of the city is zoned with a 40-foot height limit: https://qpho.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5843aebefa7517e39d3b4.... That's about the same as the height limit in our neighborhood in exurban Maryland.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by kradroy on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:34AM (#19501930)
The buildings might get 2 stories taller! At least they chose a reasonable time for the meeting.

I don't know what to do in SF other than trying another round of electing supervisors at large. The way the "supervisorial courtesy" works in the city turns neighborhoods into inviolable fiefdoms. I can influence my supervisor, but my district isn't going to be able to solve the various urban decay problems on its own.

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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by bduerst on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#19503058)
Join the progressives fighting this FUD: https://www.sfyimby.org/
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by gridlockd on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:07AM (#19501541)
> Tech jobs have little to do with SFs housing problem, tech is just a convenient scapegoat.

You say that without giving an alternative explanation. If it's not the tech jobs (and the jobs built around them) that raised demand so much, what else is it?

> In the 80s the blame was finance.

Again, why do you assume that finance was just the scapegoat, not the actual reason?

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