one of the most amazing things to me about san fransisco is the fact that it sucks for everyone
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...working class even if they have to move neighborhoods than the incredibly hostile adversarial relationships with landlords it fosters
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this is beside the point in sf because lack of construction would make market price insane even with rent control gone, but I can...
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...assure you having it is no picnic since now your landlord has incentive to make your life so awful that you leave
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the credentialed class has to make enough to offset the absurd housing costs and essentially buy access to what in most places would be...
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...normal infrastructure, eg traffic and inadequate transit making what could be 30 minutes on a train into 120 on a private bus
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and it isn't even a glitzy playground for the rich. there isn't anyone who benefits from all this
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there's this idea that property owners are the winners but I can't for the life of me understand why you wouldn't sell with the market...
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...as it is and get the hell out, buy someplace else and retire early on the difference
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democrats should hate the deprivation and social injustice, socialcons the squalor and lack of community, libertarians the insane government
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I just don't get it guys
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anyway sf blows I miss ny
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the price distortions from blocking construction overshadow the distortions from rent control atm. you'd have to scrap both
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Tracing back the cause of WHY people block construction, it's largely because there's very little incentive to build
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there's little incentive for property owners to allow other people to build and dilute the value of their land
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developers are trying to build and municipal zoning boards are blocking them
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Morbid fascination leads me to watch and talk at the Palo Alto City Council many weeks. It's a train wreck.
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