Evicted in San Francisco

Re:Evicted in San Francisco by jedmeyers on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:14PM (#7382169)

It looks like the Entitled do not consider it to be a privilege. To them once you rented a place somewhere for x years, you are entitled to live at that place indefinitely.

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Re:Evicted in San Francisco by Shivetya on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:20PM (#7382208)

we only have to look to politicians to assign the blame, in the East its called rent control, whats its called in SF?

It is like any government handout, except here in the case of money they merely take your rights away to your property.

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Re:Evicted in San Francisco by jjoonathan on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @11:21PM (#7383713)

Blaming this on politicians is lazy and narrowsighted. Compromise is a two way street:

Landowners get zoning rules that prevent them from competing with highrise apartment buildings, turning desirable regions into pressure-cookers that drive rents and property values sky-high.

Tenants get rent control that shields them from the from the worst of the landowner-cartel's machinations. Not as well as they were promised at voting time, but they don't typically invest as much in local politics, so that's to be expected.

The real losers are the people who would move into a neighborhood if they could. They don't get any representation in the local government. That's either a feature or a bug, depending on which side of the fence you're on :)

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