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"Filtering" -- interesting dynamic. So why isn't filtering working in SF? > "Filtering is the idea that, as new market-rate housing is built, higher-income peo
by Tempest1981 11y ago
"Filtering" -- interesting dynamic. So why isn't filtering working in SF?
> "Filtering is the idea that, as new market-rate housing is built, higher-income people move into it, leaving behind older housing stock for lower-income people."
- davidw 11y agoBecause no one is building much of anything there!
- henrikschroder 11y ago> So why isn't filtering working in SF? It does, there was an article here a few weeks ago where they had studied gentrification in SF and found that the areas that allowed more new (luxury) apartment construction had less reduction in poor people living in the area compared to the ones that didn't.