...countless tweets about burglaries of residents’s homes with little follow up from your office, a video of an empty Walgreens looted daily, and countless other stories of assaults on your streets, those anecdotes tell a story of an inability to ensure safety and justice...
Democratic Party has full@control of the government in SF and the Bay Area, from the state government all@the way down to the municipal government. They could enact whatever las they want, yet they haven’t done anything constructive to solve the housing problem to date.
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Ultimately, housing and public services are the responsibility of elected officials who represent their voters. So imo this is a dynamic issue that requires dynamic solutions, not something the wealthy can just solve on their own....
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...sure you could take more money from the wealthy, but they’ll just move away, and then the city is less wealthy and can’t pay its bills. I have no idea what the relationship is between city council and wealthy citizens inside the city, but it seems extremely antagonistic..
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They can't do a lot if they don't have the funding. An unfunded mandate does nothing. Programs need funding. And if you are uber-rich and were part of creating the homeless crisis in the city you moved into, why not help ease that crisis?
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I think generally that argument is correct, but as I understand it a lot of the issues derive from policy that limits building residential density - there’s a framework of regulations and laws that complicates building affordable housing quickly and cheaply
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