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by closeparen
2884 days ago
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From a policy perspective I agree. The regulations that Bay Area homeowners institute to ensure that this remains an exclusive and premium place are effective and ought to be reversed. We can still talk about the issue in a way that empathizes with the tragedy of poor communities losing their homes, and avoids framing gentrification as an unmitigated good. |
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We might not see eye-to-eye on this issue. I think it's about 90% the fault of those who've lived here for decades and 10% the fault of new people like me (7 years here so far).
I think this is reflective of a more general problem with policymaking in the Bay Area, namely, people do what feels good, and ignore what actually works. I'm somewhere in the middle politically but this puts me way right of most bay area people. And what upsets me is that people just think they can make up their own outcomes here. There are certain issues like rent control, where every mainstream economist agrees it makes the problem worse (stifles development and divides an area into a two-tiered systems of "haves" and "have nots" for the controlled units) and yet we just ignore them here, preferring to vote with our hearts, or as you put it "empathize".
I'm trying to empathize but I'm also trying to solve the problem, you know?