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by erentz 3546 days ago
I feel like the best thing Bay Area tech companies could do to help with homelessness is to use their influence to fix zoning and transit.

Granted this is short of them getting involved in campaigning for things like universal health care, better mental health facilities, drug decriminaiation, and other such issues that are harder to touch. But the impact of lowering overall housing costs would help many. And the reduced housing costs would reduce the demand for stupidly high tech wages helping with the inequality in the Bay Area.

CEOs of these tech companies must live in bubbles to not see the threat that Bay Area housing costs have to their business.