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by ed 1651 days ago
It feels like San Franciscans have pioneered a new anti-gentrification tactic: dramatically lower the quality of life until costs reset to 2008 levels.
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Nothing creates affordable housing like violence and bad schools.
But if costs aren't going down, then what? It seems like they've already reached an equilibrium, and the "exodus" is just normal churn (to be replaced by a roughly equivalent influx, keeping prices the same).