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SF reversed course on the police budget cuts the next year and has seen year over year increases, despite crime violent crime never peaking to historic highs.

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/

Rent control efffects only 60% of housing and still allows for obscene increases of up to 7% per year. The entire state of California has a cap at 10%. Is LA also a shithole?

https://bungalow.com/articles/rent-control-in-san-francisco-everything-you-need-to-know

Harm reduction literally keeps used needles off the streets, preventing children from getting Hepatitis in playgrounds. You’d have to be a moron to oppose it. The city of Vancouver, a highly sought after location has had this since the 2000s. Geneva, Switzerland has had successful harm reduction since the 90s.

https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/four-pillars-drug-strategy.aspx

The issues in SF are based on three things: NIMBYism, tech worker housing demand, pandemic work from home killing downtown business

Capitalists have done everything in their power to destroy one of North America’s greatest cities and they refuse to take any of the blame.

Sorry in advance to the cities in Texas they’re all moving to now.

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The NIMBY aspect is the biggest problem. It prevents high speed rail, affordable housing (which prevents new schools), pretty much everything except for new office spaces.

Because single family homes are treated like investments instead of homes. Anything that could slow price increases is vehemently opposed by existing homeowners. It’s ridiculous.

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Right, my point exactly! Vitalik wrote about that a year or two ago and I agree. 

It’s frustrating how much a small handful of high value property holders can control so much of political progress

Every year I used to go to a Palo Alto city councilwoman’s Christmas party. For a decade plus the city was paralyzed by the inability to simultaneously build roads, schools, and housing, because you can’t build 1 without the other 2. Every time they’d try would be an uproar.

I think they eventually tied approval of new housing to approval of new office space and got some results.