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Increasingly, single family detached homes in the interior of SF are owned by the very wealthy who can remain in the city to shape policy over the long term, wh
by claydavisss 6y ago
Increasingly, single family detached homes in the interior of SF are owned by the very wealthy who can remain in the city to shape policy over the long term, while renters come and go. So don't expect anyone at City Hall to swing a wrecking ball in the direction of Pac Heights.
The problem has solved itself already - the US is big and empty. There is little reason to stack people twenty stories high in a Zoom economy. So much talk here of policy changes, LVT etc etc...just freaking move!! That's a very trite response but it also is the best one. If anything, the pandemic has taken a wrecking ball to the entire thesis of New Urbanism and dense development...many Bay Area residents have already figured it out, don't be the last to get the memo.
- wbl 6y agoHow is North Dakota doing? Meanwhile Hong Kong and Tokyo escaped relatively unscathed.
- oblio 6y agoI wouldn't bet against urbanization. There are many advantages to living in a large, busy city and Zoom can only counter some of them.
- claydavisss 6y agoThen pay the price and stop complaining. Once again, this is a trite response but what else is there to say? Accept the cost or move. Don't wait - the things people are complaining about here have been constants in California since the 90s and aren't going to change no matter how many upvotes you earn...the people who shape these rules realized long ago that real votes outrank upvotes. HN conceives of itself as a master-race but is really just a disposable worker-class. The real master-race are the owners of capital.