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It's lefty/Dem California. Why aren't the communities integrated?
Humans are hierarchical social animals and thus classist. Liberals at least are willing to tax us in order to house the poor and non-white Somewhere Else. Conservatives are classist as well but let zoning drive the poor and non-white somewhere else without subsidizing them.
San Francisco should be used as the #1 example to the rest of the country as to what happens when left wing liberals and progressives run a city with no opposition. It's a great lesson for everyone to see.
It becomes one of the richest cities in the world!
Honestly just stay away from certain parts of downtown SF if you don't want to see homeless people. It's not hard.
Liberals are happy to tax you in order to warehouse poor and non-white people in Someone Else's Neighborhood. Conservatives zone out the poor and non-white to the extent feasible, tell those people to vote with their feet, and are unwilling to tax you in order to house the others anywhere.
And your 'free market' solution is what, impose rent control, or require employers to hire a certain number of minorities in high paying jobs? Gentrification priced minorities out of expensive cities like San Francisco, liberals did not ship them out.
San Francisco is such a liberal city. Why are they having a huge problem with homelessness? Being so liberal, and all, shouldn't it be a model of what liberals/Dems want for the rest of the country?
So... the liberal dream for us all is massive homelessness and poverty?
Many factors: weather, cost of living, other municipalities sending their homeless to SF, a general acceptance of it.
I'm not so sure this is any liberal dream. That makes no sense. It is capitalism and there are lots of people doing very well. You cannot be poor or middle class here any longer or you may end up homeless.
And your 'free market' solution is what, impose rent control, or require employers to hire a certain number of minorities in high paying jobs? Gentrification priced minorities out of expensive cities like San Francisco, liberals did not ship them out.
Nope. Repeal residential zoning restrictions (e.g. allow smaller lots and allow greater density). Residential zoning (protectionist supply control for incumbent homeowners) and rent control (protectionist price control for incumbent renters) are mirror images of each other and should either both be allowed or both be prohibited - government should not pick sides or choose winners and losers by allowing only one but not the other.
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