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All the hubbub about tech workers gentrifying the bay area is just misguided and ignorant. It's not your fault that the Government has given homeowners signific
by curun1r 12y ago
All the hubbub about tech workers gentrifying the bay area is just misguided and ignorant. It's not your fault that the Government has given homeowners significant incentives to try to block the construction of new housing. It's not your fault that the government has manipulated the rental market to keep people in their homes far longer than they should have been there. It's not your fault that local governments can't figure out a way to ensure that every city in the bay area has roughly the same capacity for housing as it does for jobs. And it's not your fault that there's high demand for your skills.
Rather than protesting in front of Google buses (which would have been significantly smaller if they had limited participation to only people who've never used a Google product or service), they should be protesting in front of City Hall to allow the building of new housing. The only thing that will keep them in the city is to lower the cost of housing to a level where they can afford to live there and that can't happen if there's no new development.