[650REDHAIR]

SF is suffering the brunt of failed politics across the US. It doesn’t have to spread because it’s already there…

It’s just easier to see in SF because the elements are far less likely to kill you here and we’ve decriminalized homelessness.

[danaris]

NIMBY is an inherently local problem, and from what I've heard, that is at the heart of SF's issues: "you can't build affordable housing here, that will lower my property values"; "you can't build a big apartment building here, that will destroy the quaint local character".

I'm not saying that's a problem unique to SF, but SF can solve it without fixing the political issues that affect the rest of the country.