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Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by temp42564356 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:45PM (#7072405)
> I am mystified by housing/anti-gentrification advocates' refusal to consider building new housing stock as a solution to this problem.

Because an anti-gentrification advocate is bascially saying, "you don't have the right to desire to live in my neighborhood, only I should be allowed to desire to live in my neighborhood"

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Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by JohnTHaller on Thursday January 16, 2014 @04:48PM (#7072772)
"... that I moved to as part of the last round of gentrification."
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Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by Crito on Thursday January 16, 2014 @05:54PM (#7073077)
That's the real kicker. They are all "forty-niners".
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Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by rpx on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:55PM (#7072491)
Bit ironic given that those complaining the loudest likely displaced others in the not-so-distant past.
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