Re:The Owner of San Francisco’s Largest Hotel Is Just Walkin...
by kelnos on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:58PM
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To be fair, many of the people who left did so because rents just got too damn high, and purchasing a home was completely out of their reach.
I do agree with you that the influx of money that came with the tech boom did clean things up a bit, and make things a bit safer (didn't stop me from getting mugged in the Mission in 2013, though, but I digress). But the soaring demand for housing, and the city's complete inability to build more, drove a lot of low- and middle-income folks out.
(And I say this as a tech person who greatly benefited from all this. With very mixed feelings.)
I was never a huge fan of Ed Lee (didn't strongly dislike him, just was kinda meh on him), but after seeing the results of Breed's leadership... wow, I really miss Ed Lee.
I do agree with you that the influx of money that came with the tech boom did clean things up a bit, and make things a bit safer (didn't stop me from getting mugged in the Mission in 2013, though, but I digress). But the soaring demand for housing, and the city's complete inability to build more, drove a lot of low- and middle-income folks out.
(And I say this as a tech person who greatly benefited from all this. With very mixed feelings.)
I was never a huge fan of Ed Lee (didn't strongly dislike him, just was kinda meh on him), but after seeing the results of Breed's leadership... wow, I really miss Ed Lee.