Your commentary is well presented. But as someone who grew up in SF the problems you point to have always been there. Always. It's actually better now than it has ever been. SF has more billionaires than any other city. If there is an ongoing issue, why aren't they doing more?
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..and lacking trust from both parties. That’s an issue that needs to be addressed, so everyone is moving towards a unified goal if you really do want wealthy citizens to take on more burden.
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Wealthy citizens can fund solutions. No one should have to convince them to help their own city. Marc Benioff is such a billionaire. He has advocated for funding for projects around homelessness. Just imagine if all the other billionaires did the same. Problem solved.
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It's not taking money from the wealthy. This would be uber-wealthy residents of a city with more billionaires than any other city in the world deciding to help repair damage that they were instrumental in causing. I remember when SF was affordable. The uber-rich changed that.
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I would make the argument that’s not really the fault of “Uber rich” - it’s more of a lack of housing supply and extremely high demand with lots of money driving up prices, effectively squeezing the middle class, which exerts downward pressure people with little wealth
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