Hogwash. SF residents are being forcibly removed from their homes because they refuse to allow more housing to be constructed. They keep supply artificially low through a lot of ridiculous ordinances, pushing up rent and the cost of living in many ways.
Also, there is nothing preventing many from benefitting from the growth here. For example, every single blue collar worker in construction with unions should be fighting to permit a housing boom here. It increases demand for their services, giving them more work and putting them in a better bargaining position. This city could easily grow 50 to 100% over the next decade if it wanted to. A 50% increase in population would be awesome economically for just about everyone who lives and works in the area and provide goods and services for people living in San Francisco.
If you want to keep it cheap, you need to dilute the 1%ers so they represent a percent of the city instead of like 25% of the city.
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Hogwash. SF residents are being forcibly removed from their homes because they refuse to allow more housing to be constructed. They keep supply artificially low through a lot of ridiculous ordinances, pushing up rent and the cost of living in many ways.
Also, there is nothing preventing many from benefitting from the growth here. For example, every single blue collar worker in construction with unions should be fighting to permit a housing boom here. It increases demand for their services, giving them more work and putting them in a better bargaining position. This city could easily grow 50 to 100% over the next decade if it wanted to. A 50% increase in population would be awesome economically for just about everyone who lives and works in the area and provide goods and services for people living in San Francisco.
If you want to keep it cheap, you need to dilute the 1%ers so they represent a percent of the city instead of like 25% of the city.