I disagree. Neither wants to "keep people out" - they want to figure out how to address housing without just giving into the greedy demands of SV tech companies and property speculators- the people backing Weiner and Breed.https://twitter.com/jtomposton/status/996204089225576448 …
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Replying to @coolgrey
There is plenty of room for disagreement about how to cope with the housing crisis; I don’t think anyone has all the answers. But I haven’t heard even a hint of an actual plan from Kim or Leno. And I don’t see how any plan can not involve a LOT more housing being built...
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Depends on how you frame the problem(s) and the solution space. For instance, there's more than enough vacant housing in San Francisco for everyone here who's unhoused.
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That's not a solution that many people - particularly people in power or who own vacant housing - are willing to entertain. And it's also not the problem most people mean when the talk of 'the housing problem.'
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For a significant percentage of the twittering classes, 'the housing problem' means 'I got a very well paid job in tech in the Bay Area, but can't find a nice place to live in the Mission at a reasonable price.'
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That seems to be a significant proportion of the support for the so-called 'yimby' movement.
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For me this is simple economics and urban design: MANY more people have moved to the Bay Area over the last decade than there has been housing built for them, thus rents and sell prices have gone through the roof. Either demand has to be met, or people will stop coming/move away.
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Well, I'm not sure there is any such thing as "simple" economics or urban design :-) But there is a fairly fundamental question here. Should the Bay Area build housing for anyone who wants to move here at whatever cost to the region? Are there limits?
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Should San Francisco build housing to accommodate whatever workforce requirements tech companies located in other cities have for skilled workers with high salaries who see living in SF as one of the perks of their job?
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If SF wants to build lots of office space so it can have the tax revenue to support a budget that has doubled in size in the last 10 years, then yes it needs to build housing for said workers.
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