This basically seals the deal that San Francisco is going to be a Big Tech town going forward; if you are a mid-size company or smaller, you need to pick another city or go remote (if you haven't likely done that already).https://twitter.com/MLNow/status/1214242370478170113 …
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So the new line of thinking today to solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area is to address the jobs-housing imbalance -- not by building more housing -- but by banning everything else like office! See Palo Alto's most recent mayor: https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/13/21062784/palo-alto-mayors-housing-crisis-sb50-filseth-fine …pic.twitter.com/L69yrb03CR
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And in SF with Prop. E, which is marketed as an affordable housing measure, but is actually a long-term office ban that all but ensures that only cos like Google & FB will be able to afford SF long-term & will push offices into East Bay, South SF: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/01/san-francisco-affordable-housing-office-space-proposition-e/604651/ …pic.twitter.com/S2ynDQHhUb
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Big Tech crowding out everything else, Part #4193 from
@alexismadrigal:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/why-silicon-valley-and-big-tech-dont-innovate-anymore/604969/ …Show this thread -
Oh, a report from the city economist showing that the board of supervisors wants to cut SF’s GDP growth by $23 billion over the next 20 years in a measure that doesn’t actually increase funding for affordable housing.https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/28/21111334/san-francisco-prop-e-balanced-housing-act-report …
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Everyone actually running the campaign for this measure doesn’t care about the future because they’re not going to be around anyway. https://twitter.com/tribtowerviews/status/1191938766371467264?s=21 …https://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1191938766371467264 …
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