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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by CalRobert on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:50AM (#25560690)
Why should we subsidize homes for firefighters?
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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by imtringued on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:46PM (#25561897)
I don't know about firefighters but some public services are dependent on workers who commute from outside of San Francisco.
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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by CalRobert on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:07AM (#25567750)
More broadly, if housing is so expensive people with full time jobs can't easily afford it, build more housing. Subsidizing it for certain groups is NIMBY-enabling tokenism.
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