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A comment on San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash by fakethenews2022 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @05:31PM (#32743462)
We can just measure this. What percentage of people we give just housing to get off their feet after say a year or two? What percentage of people we allow to shoot up in city approved areas go clean after a year or two? From what I have read, it is a percentage in the low single digits.

We are perpetuating a permanent dependent underclass along with a bureaucracy that is incentivized to maintain the class to maintain their power.

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Re:San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:27PM (#32746027)
> We can just measure this.

How? Getting accurate statistics is impossible, and what we get is self reported. "I'm not on drugs anymore!" (while smoking fent) is not uncommon. Every group will roll out self reported data to support their positions, scientific studies are frowned on, if they are even possible anyways.

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Re:San Francisco braces for commercial real estate crash by fakethenews2022 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:22AM (#32746274)
SF rolled out stats. Their stats did the opposite of supporting their position. Some stats are so bad that you can only lie in interpretation.
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