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I agree. I think the only explanations it gives are that the city has no middle class and politicians try to solve national problems with local solutions. Neith

I agree. I think the only explanations it gives are that the city has no middle class and politicians try to solve national problems with local solutions. Neither are root causes in my opinion. The former is explained by a lack of new home building which is a statewide and national problem and the latter is explained by the fact that the San Francisco political machine generates a lot of national political candidates! The city is hugely over-represented in national politics. I have no clue why, and the causes of both are probably more explanatory than whatever the article provides.

babesh 5y ago
Nope. There are plenty of local problems that the city has been completely inept at solving. Go look at how much it costs to build a mile of tunnel and how late it is. Roughly 1b and 10 years late and the clock is still running.
- shuckles 5y ago
  Which is in line with infrastructure costs throughout the country. How much did the 2nd Ave subway cost? LA Metro expansion?
  - babesh 5y ago
    That doesn't mean that SF isn't incompetent. That means they are all incompetent. You have those cities also complain about those costs.
    - shuckles 5y ago
      Then root causes that put blame on San Francisco voters are not very convincing.
      - babesh 5y ago
        I never blamed the voters. Others did. Also, you can also put forth the hypothesis that voters in all those cities are to blame. That isn't my hypothesis by the way.