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What do they do in the conservative cities that's more successful?
by mushbino 6y ago
What do they do in the conservative cities that's more successful?
- dicomdan 6y agoEnforcing quality of life laws. It doesn't even have to be a conservative city. Both Boston and Miami look like first world cities compared to SF and LA.
- azinman2 6y agoI would classify neither as conservative cities.
- yuppie_scum 6y agoBoston? Conservative? You have no clue what you’re talking about
- carmen_sandiego 6y agoThey said Boston _wasn’t_ conservative.
- mushbino 6y agoThese cities are considerably larger and the homeless can be corraled somewhere out of sight. The difference is that in SF you have to see them.
- api 6y agoAllowing new housing to be built to satisfy demand.
- mikeg8 6y agoSF is surrounded by water on 3 sides. Where do you propose all these new houses be built?
- alexhutcheson 6y agoMaybe one of SF’s tech companies can invent a technology that would allow housing to be stacked vertically.
- Vaslo 6y agoCmon - they are just too busy trying to steal more of my data
- koolba 6y agoI think it’s more likely that they end up with floating apartments, likely in shipping containers, parked just outside the city’s legal limits.
- imtringued 6y agoIf SF land is so valuable why not just build more of it?
- koolba 6y agoSame reason you can’t build houses on land you already own. They won’t let you.
- cj 6y agoNew construction can replace old construction. In theory.
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- bsder 6y agoThrow the homeless in jail basically. It "solves" the problem in that the homeless are no longer visible. Whether that is a "solution" is up to the individual to decide. Winter also self-limits the homeless in many liberal and conservative states.
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoConservative cities? There isn’t a lot of data, just small cities like Fairbanks and Colorado Springs as well as big city suburbs like Mesa (suburb of Phoenix).
- curryst 6y agoIn my limited experience, they're just far less kind. They won't hesitate to arrest you, and if they do, they'll throw away all the stuff you had collected and take your dog to the pound if you had one. Police won't help if you call, and if someone else calls about you then you are presumed guilty. The end result is that the homeless either end up leaving, or moving their camp to somewhere out of the way like the woods. If you're an eye sore, people will call 911 on you 15 times a day. I'm not advocating for it, but "let's make the homeless in our city so miserable they don't want to be seen" seems to be effective in reducing the eye sore.