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Not so much, but the long bow they drew relied pretty heavily on the existence of the buses. The buses were a centralised point in SF that had all the Tech comp

Not so much, but the long bow they drew relied pretty heavily on the existence of the buses. The buses were a centralised point in SF that had all the Tech companies and tech workers so they could make a showing. Otherwise you've just got a lot of people who are fairly indescript. (then it looks really racist and anti-immigration when you're protesting foreign people). There was a part of me that really hoped the buses stopped just because the problem wouldn't. Then everyone who's up their own arses about SF's progressiveness would actually be in the position of Shut the fuck up or protest immigrants and look like racist douchebags. Mind you, also the latter isn't strictly true either. SF does have a housing problem, but when one of your major cities won't build over two stories high and have high density housing, well... no shit right?

sitkack 11y ago
The building restriction is ridiculous. I don't know enough about the players and their motivations, but could it be that landlords don't want to lose that 4200$ median rent? Has this been put up to referendum?
- resonanttoe 11y ago
  I don't know much about it as well to be honest other than bits I've seen and I opted for avoiding the area pretty soon after. If it is, its ultimately self-limiting. Other cities around the world have happily embraced urban density and its done wonders for all concerned. Nice new affordable housing. Landlords make more in quantity not necessarily margin. Commercial ventures have more customers and employees. SF is really weird to me and I can't quite grasp the motivations for not densifying in a meaningful way other than a rather simplistic "Keep the charm" kind of motif. That seems to trivial as an explanation to me, but other stories always invoke long circuitous logic that boarders wayyy to heavily on the Immigrants=bad speak without actually invoking it for my tastes.

sitkack 11y ago

The building restriction is ridiculous. I don't know enough about the players and their motivations, but could it be that landlords don't want to lose that 4200$ median rent? Has this been put up to referendum?

resonanttoe 11y ago
I don't know much about it as well to be honest other than bits I've seen and I opted for avoiding the area pretty soon after. If it is, its ultimately self-limiting. Other cities around the world have happily embraced urban density and its done wonders for all concerned. Nice new affordable housing. Landlords make more in quantity not necessarily margin. Commercial ventures have more customers and employees. SF is really weird to me and I can't quite grasp the motivations for not densifying in a meaningful way other than a rather simplistic "Keep the charm" kind of motif. That seems to trivial as an explanation to me, but other stories always invoke long circuitous logic that boarders wayyy to heavily on the Immigrants=bad speak without actually invoking it for my tastes.