If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

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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