Feels like we're getting an particularly pronounced dose of "SF was a bucolic, cheap and sleepy artist's colony until 20XX, when the tech-borg and capitalism suddenly swallowed everything"
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Nah. But it was a real shock to a decrepit system that couldn't handle it. I mean look at those lines about 2010/2011. You can just see tumult in the slopes.pic.twitter.com/NrTcyM7sDT
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I think it would be pretty clarifying to run that chart back to 1975 (and for extra credit, overlay a plot of class and ethnic demographics)
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What's the point? I'm talking about a particular point in time and the art created at that moment.
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The point is that SF was already the most expensive city in the US by 1980, and has been getting less black (and white, interestingly) since 1970. The issues people are complaining about well predate tech
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A lot of these narratives smell like old SF money and old SF political actors trying to escape responsibility for the tactics and policy priorities they chose (for both "progressives" and "moderates")
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Just looking at the chart, what 2011 looks like is a return to normal after the temporary shock of the financial crisis.
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My sense is that the inequalities in the system began to assert themselves as SF climbed out of the recession. Hypothesis: the jobs produced in aughts for locals didn't keep up with rising costs as long term trends resumed. Gonna have to play with some historic census data to see
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You should also overlay wage/income differential into that analysis, let's say from 1960s to current. Seems a lot has been written about currently the greatest (and still growing) income disparity since pre-Depression. That may explain some problems in the housing market too...
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In a low-inequality city, people double up and get roommates in a housing shortage. In today's high-inequality San Francisco, even 3 to a room isn't enough to outbid someone with tech money.
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I did six to a 3BR apartment in the Mission a decade ago, and most of my roommates were in tech...
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