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I realize intimately how hard it is to get by in SF and other big cities, so I won’t criticize the renters here, but I have no such hesitation about criticizing
by stuart78 8y ago
I realize intimately how hard it is to get by in SF and other big cities, so I won’t criticize the renters here, but I have no such hesitation about criticizing the founding team and investors. Turning apartments into tenements could never have turned out well. How does this business scale outside of the core nimby tech cities? And even in those cities, the decentralization of the market is both good and hard to take down. One hopes those responsible are compelled to do so, but one also fears it will just be the renters left twisting.
- icebraining 8y agoHouse prices are getting pretty high on cities all over the world; there's plenty of market if they were willing to go global. The concept in itself doesn't seem to be obviously broken to me.
- landryraccoon 8y agoWhat’s broken is resorting to massive investment in hacky, brittle technological solutions to a policy problem that needs a political solution to address the root causes. IMHO we live in an age where maybe some more smart people should be turning their minds towards affecting public policy.