New York City was widely considered to be a lost case in the early 1970s. (The era of the famous headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead”) For famous cities, urban d

New York City was widely considered to be a lost case in the early 1970s. (The era of the famous headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead”) For famous cities, urban decline is often an ebb and flow. If SF loses the tech crowd, it will attract new kinds of people who previously couldn’t afford to live there.