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Which of the high-crime areas have rent control? What would the crime look like if the market had let the rents rise? It's my intuition that people rarely commu
by intopieces 7y ago
Which of the high-crime areas have rent control? What would the crime look like if the market had let the rents rise? It's my intuition that people rarely commute 1hr in bumper to bumper traffic to smash windows.
- fche 7y agogentrification is whiteness amplification, and therefore bad, or something
- gibolt 7y agoI believe a large amount is attributable to the homeless (or near homeless) population. Everything around them exploded out of their range, and this is the only power they feel they have to not get priced out or feel any semblance of personal power.
- viscanti 7y agoOnly 50% of the homeless in San Francisco have been in the city for more than 10 years. Housing prices play a role but don't tell the full story. When looking at the homeless who are still on the street, they're there because they refuse to go to shelters. The vast majority who are on the streets are there because of mental health issues or drugs. The visible aspect of homelessness has much more to do with us failing to provide adequate mental healthcare and a failed war on drugs than with housing prices.
- jahewson 7y agoThe older northern parts of the city have the highest rent control ratio. These are not high crime parts of the city. So there’s no correlation. What you do see in the high crime areas is a large homeless population - who of course don’t have any rent to pay. I can’t imagine higher rents making the homeless problem any better?
- gkop 7y agoThe smash-n-grab laptop theft is extremely organized in some instances at least: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/31/thousands-of-stolen-laptops-recovered-in-massive-bay-area-car-burglary-scheme/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/31/thousands-of-stolen-l...