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by Decade 10y ago
That over $1700 price is a negative externality of home-as-investment culture and racist downzoning. There is no natural law that says the 2 bed/2 bath apartment has to be so expensive. https://www.nytimes.com/2014&#x2F
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by Decade 10y ago
My perspective is different, as a resident of San Francisco, while Huston is a scientist in Australia. Though, I think he is essentially right. These new Internet businesses employ fewer people than the industries that they displace, but th
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Some of the resentment is because cities are no longer aspirational. In the old days, if you are unhappy with your life, then you move to the city and make a new life. These days, you can’t even imagine moving to the city, because one month
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The creation of housing is something that’s bothering me right now. http://www.sfyimby.org The people in the country consider us city-people to be wimps who can’t do anything to help ourselves. You need some shelter? Then build
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by Decade 10y ago
The 50% that you are forcing Uber to pay is 100% that is denied to Lyft, and additional pressure on drivers to keep the Uber app open and the Lyft app closed.
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It’s not just a zero-sum game. Extra costs include the salaries of civil servants who administer the funds, including the many people whose job is to print out a report and put it in a drawer where nobody will see it, and the blatant cronyi
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I’m not sure that the total size of the population is what matters here. It’s the lack of representation. Back when the USA started, we had 33,000 person-units per Representative. Now we have over 700,000 people per Representative in all bu
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Stop giving money to evil ISPs. I switched to Sonic.net, even though Comcast has faster service for the price where I live. https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
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Not true. A lot of people pay far more than 30% of their earnings on housing costs, which is the federal benchmark for affordability. Also, at current prices, we are spending a fortune on primitive old houses, and the current obsession with
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Not feasible in the San Francisco Bay Area. People are already commuting as far as Sacramento, because housing is more affordable out there. It's socio-economic repression. The job growth is in knowledge, which benefits from being clos
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by Decade 10y ago
Supply of housing on land is infinite. The building of affordable housing has simply been outlawed. http://www.sfyimby.org/yimby-platform/
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by Decade 10y ago
San Francisco has a unique problem. Even though most people are renters, they still oppose policies that would lead to price decreases. That is why I support YIMBY Action and not the old Tenants Union. https://yimbyaction.org&#x2
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Some people paying high rent is fine. You are rich, you get to spend a lot of money. Usually, I don't care. Cities are important for too many reasons for me to enumerate right now. Basically, if we can't keep cities healthy, then
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by Decade 10y ago
http://www.sfyimby.org/ For the first time, I’m also hopeful.
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As usual, the NY Times sees an actual phenomenon, but fails to understand it. Softening rents? That’s because you have a limited resource of people willing and able to pay $3000 to $5000 for a single bedroom apartment. It doesn’t take much
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by Decade 10y ago
Suburbs are a Ponzi scheme. http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
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Poor people also prefer schools nearby, or some place you don’t need 90 minutes and 2 bus transfers to go to school. What has been improving San Francisco schools (e.g. Balboa High School) was Asians taking over. Which is not a preferable m
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Just suck it up. http://www.sfusd.edu/en/enroll-in-sfusd-schools/how-student-... I see kids being transported by grandparents or carpooling with another parent who has space.
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by Decade 10y ago
> I was astounded at the how banal and low brow most advertising is these days. I seem to remember a time when ads were clever and creative, but the ones I kept seeing with monotonous regularity were nothing more than quick sound bites o
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Oh. I meant, I never joined the San Francisco Tenants Union.
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I'm a native of San Francisco, a lifelong resident. But I'm also a millennial raised with both a conservative concern for the long term and an optimism for the future via science. And the big story is that the suburbs are unsustai
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by Decade 10y ago
If anything, communication technology is making things worse. Used to be that doing tech meant needing to buy and run computers. Now only a small number of companies actually house the computers, and everybody else uploads to them. So every
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by Decade 10y ago
Even worse, renters groups and community organizations are divided. I never joined the San Francisco Renters Federation because of its devotion to rent control and its hostility to landlords. Similarly, the Council of Community Housing Orga
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by Decade 10y ago
“Eight states, including Illinois, Massachusetts and California, have plans to set up their own programs for the uncovered that will offer guaranteed returns …” This is the scariest part of the article. Every time I am aware of, wherever p
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by Decade 10y ago
>> or XMPP been around before Skype > It was. XMPP, aka Jabber, started late 1998… Skype was first released in 2003… But XMPP didn’t have VoIP until 2005.[0] More importantly, XMPP and SIP don’t have a great story for NAT traversal
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> Pollution tax: yes; you are being taxed for affecting others. Soda tax: no; you are hurting no one but yourself, and it is a stretch to say otherwise. In this case you should consider: who is hurting whom? The research of Ariely an
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Burrowing Owls, Vomiting Anarchists and SF Housing: The Comic(kickstarter.com)
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by Decade 10y ago
I wonder how much of the popularity of bikes is connected with this horrible drought we've been going through in California. For my uses, my non-electric bike plus BART is usually sufficient, so I've been looking around for what w
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by Decade 10y ago
On Nextdoor this week, I saw that people are raising funds to pay for dental surgery for a woman who was mugged while walking in Mission Terrace, San Francisco. And that’s not an especially bad neighborhood. https://www.youcaring
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by Decade 10y ago
Worse, I think some nonprofits are inadvertently contributing to make the problem worse, e.g. Faith in Action putting rent control on the ballot in San Mateo, and Asian Pacific Environmental Network expanding rent control in Oakland. That&#

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