Thank you for laying all that out in better terms than I would have. Great examples of the kinds of forces that act here, and makes very clear how few of them anyone at the municipal or even state level have any control over.
Thank you for laying all that out in better terms than I would have. Great examples of the kinds of forces that act here, and makes very clear how few of them anyone at the municipal or even state level have any control over.
The "kinds of forces" causing these problems is government policy restricting the supply of housing over decades, and refusing to enforce the law.
This is not some national problem where SF is somehow blameless and helpless to confront.
Either way, progressives and their policies have been bad because they haven't dealt with the challenges they face well at all. You can try pretending it's not a self-inflicted wound, but they're still ineffective in that case. What progressive ideas could a NYC or SF implement at this point that haven't been tried already?
Thank you for laying all that out in better terms than I would have. Great examples of the kinds of forces that act here, and makes very clear how few of them anyone at the municipal or even state level have any control over.
The "kinds of forces" causing these problems is government policy restricting the supply of housing over decades, and refusing to enforce the law.
This is not some national problem where SF is somehow blameless and helpless to confront.
Either way, progressives and their policies have been bad because they haven't dealt with the challenges they face well at all. You can try pretending it's not a self-inflicted wound, but they're still ineffective in that case. What progressive ideas could a NYC or SF implement at this point that haven't been tried already?