San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
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Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#2Hey, congratulations SF. You spent over a decade whining about tech-bros and Google buses. Guess those problems are solved now!
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#3I skimmed until I found the part where the author was seriously suggesting dumping money on the problem, then I closed the article. The problem is not money.
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#4It all comes down to housing. If you make it affordable to build housing, you make housing affordable. If you make housing affordable, then you make services affordable.
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#5I don’t live there, but as a general rule, people overestimate the probability of “collapse“. Things can be declining for a long time without the dramatic acceleration that merits that term.
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#6No mention of law and order.
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#7Hey, congratulations SF. You spent over a decade whining about tech-bros and Google buses. Guess those problems are solved now!
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Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#8New York of the 1970s [1] is a better analogy than 9/11.
San Francisco is going broke. Not because of terrorism, but due to its own devices. It will need to be bailed out. When that happens, the state will take over and face the realities its voters choose to ignore.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-night-new-york-...
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#9Let it burn. The only way out is to let competition thrive and thereby create pressure to revert the cost of living insanity.
Re: San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it?
#10Hey, congratulations SF. You spent over a decade whining about tech-bros and Google buses. Guess those problems are solved now!
I think the fact that Prop J cruised to victory and Prop I went down in flames shows that the influence of the old guard is waning. There is a proliferation of groups trying to flex tech money in SF politics: Grow SF, Abundant SF, Together SF. And they are aligned with state politicians who get the goods like Weiner, Newsom, and Haney. Supervisor Peskin is termed out, again, in 2024 and Preston and his band of fake-ass socialists are going to get a serious challenger