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Originally Posted by viewguysf
What perhaps works in NYC quite often has little bearing upon us.
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in this case it does. we're in a catastrophic emergency here with housing prices relentlessly careening upward, and we're worried about some really crazy stuff. longtime/native san franciscans have been content to ride this horse because of spectacular increases in property values, but we're staring at a sea change in the city, along with a coming wave of business closures, as the 2011-2013 negotiated leases come up for renewal at double those rates. google, apple and facebook plan to add 50k more workers down in silicon valley - guess where they will choose to live? we need a manhattan project-like construction regime here, and our rules down in the soma especially seem to me to be highly analogous to the same lackadaisical attitudes some towns down south have to the water calamity we're enduring. it's great times until you wake up and realize that sf has turned into boston.
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