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by muzz 10y ago
What technology are you referring to?
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by muzz 10y ago
Given that the supply of land cannot be increased (the huge omission in GP's argument), repealing Prop 13 is indeed a large part of the solution.
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by muzz 10y ago
This is also why cities have occupancy rules, codes for maintenance, etc.
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by muzz 10y ago
A Texas-sized property tax rate would do the trick
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by muzz 10y ago
> Literally broken windows This would be a code violation. Neighbors would in theory be reporting it.
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by muzz 10y ago
Also Nobody buys houses there anymore, because the bidding wars have gotten out of hand. Nobody drives to work there anymore, the commute traffic is just too bad. Nobody wants to work there anymore, there are just too many jobs producing co
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by muzz 10y ago
Hard to tell if this comment is sarcastic or not
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by muzz 10y ago
The link seems to advocate/facilitate increasing occupancy, which is indeed one solution. With 12k people and 4k homes, that's a ratio of 3 which is very close to the average occupancy of around 2.5 that most cities have.
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by muzz 11y ago
They can go up a miniscule amount, 2%. So not exactly forever, but relatively close
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by muzz 11y ago
That really just means that both houses had too low of a listing price.
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by muzz 11y ago
Sunset and Richmond districts seem to be ignored in almost every discussion of San Francisco.
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by muzz 11y ago
The only way this would happen is if the property appreciates. At current property tax rate of 1.1%, a half-million dollar appreciation would result in $5500 yr additional property tax. I would gladly trade spots with those who have to upro
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by muzz 11y ago
True but even with these, the percentage of rental units in SF that are rent-controlled is something like 75%
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by muzz 11y ago
Not directly. But it promotes a land grab by entitling the owners of that land, and discourages redeveloping existing properties bigger because the owner would then lose the entitlement have his property taxes increased.
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by muzz 11y ago
Yes the first sentence is my point.
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by muzz 11y ago
Actual market dynamics are complicated. There are so many effects that happen when housing is built. New housing in SF is being sold to out-of-towners who don't actually live there. Building housing into a downtrodden neighborhood ca
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by muzz 11y ago
The magnitude of Prop 13's distortions contribute much more to the problem than policies that a city could implement itself. Housing is often viewed as a San Francisco problem, but really it's an area-wide problem acutely and a
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by muzz 11y ago
Or a bubble in private markets. There are plenty of "unicorn" private companies which would be worth far less in public markets
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Tech firms are luring AI experts from universities(economist.com)
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by muzz 11y ago
Sure if the cost is based on mileage then there would have to be tolls on both sides
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by muzz 11y ago
In California, health insurance is not required to and can ask for it back. From the insurance dept website http://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/105-type/95-guides/... : "If I am injured in an accide
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by muzz 11y ago
for the passenger absolutely! it's on par with transbay bus or caltrain fare. not sure if I would participate as a driver for so little though
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by muzz 11y ago
Aren't most tolls everywhere just in one direction? That way, half the number of toll booths are needed compared to both directions (before FastTrak, etc each lane required a human cashier)
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by muzz 11y ago
Worse-- the insurer will deny the claim and make the patient go after the other person's insurance
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by muzz 11y ago
> I have health insurance, so treatment for my bodily injuries is covered No, that's not how it typically works. If the injury was caused by car accident, your insurer will likely deny the claim. This happened to me when someone rea
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by muzz 11y ago
Which metros have increased the same percentage as the Bay Area?
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by muzz 11y ago
Many parts of the Bay Area, yes. Not all metros.
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by muzz 11y ago
If you had bought a house in the Bay Area at that time, it would be worth almost double now. Houses that were $500k are now $900k-1M
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by muzz 11y ago
So how many decades now?
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by muzz 11y ago
If only there was a bus straight to campus that went to like 5 counties...

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