These problems are not in spite of SF's success, they are largely due to SF's success. Anywhere else in the US which experiences the same level of success would

These problems are not in spite of SF's success, they are largely due to SF's success. Anywhere else in the US which experiences the same level of success would end up having to deal with mostly the same problems. Henry George predicted this 142 years ago. > If there is less deep poverty in San Francisco than in New York, is it not because San Francisco is yet behind new York in all that both cities are striving for? When San Francisco reaches the point where New York now is, who can doubt that there will also be ragged and barefooted children on her streets? In our current system, poverty advances alongside progress. Landlords are the only beneficiaries in a system without Land Value Tax, everyone else is at best doomed to face the trade-offs of going to less productive cities.