MeDotOrg Walgreens theft in San Francisco

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Just keep it in California and New York and respect our right to deal with people like this thug in our land in the original post as we see fit.

'Redneck Rave' at Kentucky park ends with 48 people charged, throat slashing, and an impalement

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[MeDotOrg]

So what happens when you let the market prevail? What happens without Section 8 or subsidized housing? The joke in San Francisco is that you would have a city of dot.com millionaires yelling "Where's my cappuccino?", because baristas and waiters won't be able to afford to live here. It's already starting to happen in Marin County, where they don't have rent control.

Rent control has been such a failure that even Californians didn't vote for it. Housing still costs money to build and maintain even when the government doesn't allow landlords to charge money for it. Where rent control has been implemented, landlords unsurprisingly no longer build (driving down supply) nor are they willing to maintain the upkeep on the housing. Rent control also drives down the value of market rate housing adjacent to rent control areas because as it turns out most families avoid areas where their kids wake up to seeing drunk homeless people sleeping on their driveways. Families who no longer need 4 bedroom houses when their kids leave home and would normally sell the property have little incentive to do so in a rent control area. Thus you get the phenomena of finding either homeless bums or people in the upper 5% of the income bracket and anyone in between has had to flee town.

But if you're happy with the fruits of liberal policy, that's perfectly ok with me as long as Californians don't come to my state and bring the same politics that created the current situation. Just keep it in California and New York and respect our right to deal with people like this thug in our land in the original post as we see fit.

What would you see as the solution to our problems?

[ajax18]

What would you see as the solution to our problems?

Get rid of rent control. This will attract more developers to build more affordable housing which people will then move into.

And don't feed this narrative to them that, "You're black and poor. Walgreens has plenty of money so it's ok for you to go in and take what you want. If someone tries to stop you from stealing there or prosecutes you for it, it's because they're racist." They've grown up being told this and this video is the result. This behavior isn't because of poverty.

[MeDotOrg]

The assumption is that removing rent control will unleash a building boom, but there's nowhere to build. Only New York has more people per square mile. Whatever increased building that would be precipitated by removing rent control would do virtually nothing to add to the supply. Homelessness would increase, as would the gap between the haves and the have nots.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

The assumption is that removing rent control will unleash a building boom, but there's nowhere to build. Only New York has more people per square mile. Whatever increased building that would be precipitated by removing rent control would do virtually nothing to add to the supply. Homelessness would increase, as would the gap between the haves and the have nots.

Get rid of preservationist barriers and NIMBYism?

- Doc

[ajax18]

The assumption is that removing rent control will unleash a building boom, but there's nowhere to build. Only New York has more people per square mile. Whatever increased building that would be precipitated by removing rent control would do virtually nothing to add to the supply. Homelessness would increase, as would the gap between the haves and the have nots.

You just build taller buildings. There hasn't been anywhere to build for some time. And yet human beings have continued to flee the country in exchange for city life even without the help of rent control.

[Moksha]

What would you see as the solution to our problems?

Have a trolley car putsch into the Presidio to give lebensraum to land developers? Require residents of the Tenderloin District to wear less than prime and choice stars (perhaps commercial grade)?