Re:The Millennial Commune
by morgante on Sunday August 02, 2015 @06:32PM
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You're right, the existing hegemony in SF is an unholy alliance between anti-immigrant liberals and rent-seeking landlords.
I should have been more specific about wanting newer "tech renters" (ie. not crazy liberals who think building housing somehow drives up rents).
Apparently this has already happened in Mountain View and I do think eventually SF will have to come around. Probably through an alliance of either developers and new renters (curtailing most regulation) or new renters and silly rent-controllers (streamlining regulation but requiring the addition of rent control on x% of all new units).
(On a separate note, the hypocrisy of SF liberals is ridiculous. They're all for allowing immigration nationally, but violently attack people who dare to move into their city.)
Re:The Millennial Commune
by mahyarm on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:42AM
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Most political groups commit the modern sin of hypocrisy. Old 'conservative' people decrying taxes and welfare yet exploiting it as much as possible for themselves, and organizing in force whenever it is threatened.
I should have been more specific about wanting newer "tech renters" (ie. not crazy liberals who think building housing somehow drives up rents).
Apparently this has already happened in Mountain View and I do think eventually SF will have to come around. Probably through an alliance of either developers and new renters (curtailing most regulation) or new renters and silly rent-controllers (streamlining regulation but requiring the addition of rent control on x% of all new units).
(On a separate note, the hypocrisy of SF liberals is ridiculous. They're all for allowing immigration nationally, but violently attack people who dare to move into their city.)