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Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

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2015–2024
peak thread · 178 comments
212 pts
latest 20+ return · 2019-04-22
106 pts

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I looked at housing prices in SF going back to 1920, and the year over year increases are still in line with the annual increases we see today. All the rhetoric and oddly empowering blame game to the tech industry (at least for us tech people) is merely trendy. The only thing that stopped keeping up are salary increases.

The solution is the same as every other time this comes up. Upzone the city. They tried this at the state level with SB827. That bill was flawed but the idea was good. The city could fix this for itself if they could get the political will to do so. Follow the lead of Minneapolis, and make R1 zoning good for up to four units, instead of single family. That one change alone would make a huge difference. People are…

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