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Did you read the article? It laments a lack of investment in: * Affordable housing * Public transit * Green energy Can you show me any of these items in the

Did you read the article? It laments a lack of investment in: * Affordable housing * Public transit * Green energy Can you show me any of these items in the current Republican party platform, or even point to any local Republican-run government which has invested significantly in any of these?

garmaine 6y ago
I think you are misinterpreting the post you are replying to. Any single-party system devolves into graft and cronyism as the politicians aren't held accountable for their actions. After all, what are you going to do, waste your vote on the other side?
whatanattitude 6y ago
Why haven’t the Democrats who have ran this city done any of that is the point of the article. Your looking to republicans. It’s a liberal run city.
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- deepakhj 6y ago
  On housing - Nimbys.. folks that fight change.
  - ashtonkem 6y ago
    Often while making arguments about how increased housing would hurt poor people, hilariously enough.
    - the_only_law 6y ago
      A tad related: This was in the LA area, but there was a video I saw a while back where a guy had crowdfunded a project to build shelters for homless people that were basically tiny houses with locks, a solar power providing a small amount of power, etc. and the city went ballistic about it. Admittedly there were some genuine problems with how it was executed, i.e. blocking sidewalks and they even offered to move them but were rejected. There was a clip of some city official claiming that this man building shelters for homeless people did nothing to help them, yet his own plan to "end homelessness" somehow would. This video was rather old, probably early 2010s. I wonder how that politicians plan to end homelessness is doing.
      - ashtonkem 6y ago
        Since I live in LA I can answer your last question: whatever the plan was it is not working. The homelessness situation here is continuing to accelerate out of control. This dovetails nicely with the “tiny home” movement. Regardless of how you feel about affluent people taking up tiny homes, there is something deeply off putting about municipalities in the midst of a housing crisis putting up minimum housing size laws that require tiny homes to be built via loophole on top of a trailer.
- Redoubts 6y ago
  Because local politics are weird, and half the Democrats would want to build a wall around SF and make Midwestern transplants pay for it...
anm89 6y ago
And apparently the left is approximately the same because they totally dominate there and yet none of this is fixed.
redis_mlc 6y ago
I live in SF, and your post is bizarre: - affordable housing - for who? with our confines - how? Currently 60% of the $300 million in city "homeless funds" pay for subsidized apartments, presumably low-income residents. - public transit - is relatively good (pre-corona.) SF Muni needs to retain senior transport engineers to prevent fiascos like buying the wrong length street cars, and how to side around non-operating cars. Otherwise the problem is that the workers (unionized) are allowed to call in sick 30% of the time, so an extra 30% has to be hired. - green energy - don't see how this is important compared to other issues. street cars are already electrified.
axaxs 6y ago
So you only care about what a website says, and not the living proof that your current leadership has not only -not- done those things, but apparently lied about its intentions?
Rebelgecko 6y ago
Affordable housing is an easy one-- look at a map of US housing costs, and make a decision about which areas are affordable [1]. Then look at a map of political party distribution. There is a strong correlation between affordable communities and Republican ones It's also trivial to find examples of republican led cities/counties investing in public transit and green energy. Here's a twofer [2] [1]: here's a map that takes COL into account although it's California only https://edsource.org/2019/interactive-map-where-teachers-find-affordable-housing-in-california/611230/amp https://edsource.org/2019/interactive-map-where-teachers-fin... Here's a national map that compares the minimum hourly wage to rent a 2 bedroom house, it also let's you zoom in on a region- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor https://reports.nlihc.org/oor [2]: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/article/21114673/stadler-lands-pair-of-milestone-contracts-with-marta-sbcta https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/article/2111467...

garmaine 6y ago

I think you are misinterpreting the post you are replying to. Any single-party system devolves into graft and cronyism as the politicians aren't held accountable for their actions. After all, what are you going to do, waste your vote on the other side?

whatanattitude 6y ago

Why haven’t the Democrats who have ran this city done any of that is the point of the article. Your looking to republicans. It’s a liberal run city.

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deepakhj 6y ago
On housing - Nimbys.. folks that fight change.
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  Often while making arguments about how increased housing would hurt poor people, hilariously enough.
  - the_only_law 6y ago
    A tad related: This was in the LA area, but there was a video I saw a while back where a guy had crowdfunded a project to build shelters for homless people that were basically tiny houses with locks, a solar power providing a small amount of power, etc. and the city went ballistic about it. Admittedly there were some genuine problems with how it was executed, i.e. blocking sidewalks and they even offered to move them but were rejected. There was a clip of some city official claiming that this man building shelters for homeless people did nothing to help them, yet his own plan to "end homelessness" somehow would. This video was rather old, probably early 2010s. I wonder how that politicians plan to end homelessness is doing.
    - ashtonkem 6y ago
      Since I live in LA I can answer your last question: whatever the plan was it is not working. The homelessness situation here is continuing to accelerate out of control. This dovetails nicely with the “tiny home” movement. Regardless of how you feel about affluent people taking up tiny homes, there is something deeply off putting about municipalities in the midst of a housing crisis putting up minimum housing size laws that require tiny homes to be built via loophole on top of a trailer.
Redoubts 6y ago
Because local politics are weird, and half the Democrats would want to build a wall around SF and make Midwestern transplants pay for it...

anm89 6y ago

And apparently the left is approximately the same because they totally dominate there and yet none of this is fixed.

redis_mlc 6y ago

I live in SF, and your post is bizarre: - affordable housing - for who? with our confines - how? Currently 60% of the $300 million in city "homeless funds" pay for subsidized apartments, presumably low-income residents. - public transit - is relatively good (pre-corona.) SF Muni needs to retain senior transport engineers to prevent fiascos like buying the wrong length street cars, and how to side around non-operating cars. Otherwise the problem is that the workers (unionized) are allowed to call in sick 30% of the time, so an extra 30% has to be hired. - green energy - don't see how this is important compared to other issues. street cars are already electrified.

axaxs 6y ago

So you only care about what a website says, and not the living proof that your current leadership has not only -not- done those things, but apparently lied about its intentions?

Rebelgecko 6y ago

Affordable housing is an easy one-- look at a map of US housing costs, and make a decision about which areas are affordable [1]. Then look at a map of political party distribution. There is a strong correlation between affordable communities and Republican ones It's also trivial to find examples of republican led cities/counties investing in public transit and green energy. Here's a twofer [2] [1]: here's a map that takes COL into account although it's California only https://edsource.org/2019/interactive-map-where-teachers-find-affordable-housing-in-california/611230/amp https://edsource.org/2019/interactive-map-where-teachers-fin... Here's a national map that compares the minimum hourly wage to rent a 2 bedroom house, it also let's you zoom in on a region- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor https://reports.nlihc.org/oor [2]: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/article/21114673/stadler-lands-pair-of-milestone-contracts-with-marta-sbcta https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/article/2111467...