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> My liberal friends in San Francisco hold the opposite mindset, they want everyone housed, working or otherwise, even if it's done in their own neighborhood.
by silotis 8y ago
> My liberal friends in San Francisco hold the opposite mindset, they want everyone housed, working or otherwise, even if it's done in their own neighborhood.
That may be true for your friends, but the revealed preference of SF residents as a whole does not agree.
- komali2 8y agoPerhaps, then, SF is not as liberal as people assume?
- kenmicklas 8y agoIt's really not. SF public policy can barely be counted as liberal and seeing people on HN calling it "leftist" is maddening.
- refurb 8y ago"No true Scotsman"
- deepakhj 8y agoLots of people in the bay area think the techies caused the housing crisis.
- hfdgiutdryg 8y agoI was invited to a tent-covered block party in SF by a friend active in politics and the Asian-American scene. I was told that the party was being thrown by a Chinese family that owned something like 30% of SF property. I have no way of verifying this. My point being that money, in one way or another, caused the housing crisis, and it may not have anything to do with liberal vs conservative, zoning, regulations, or prop 13. SF is an iconic city, and money will always flow there. Meanwhile, virtually everyone I knew in SF was a renter, and most of them were in tech. The only ones I knew who owned had pre-IPO Google money or made it to Google Staff positions.