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by tptacek 4741 days ago
I call "math". Manhattan is 34 square miles and houses 1.6MM people. San Francisco is 49 square miles --- 1.5x bigger! --- and houses just 810k.

Working class people in SF aren't just upset that they're losing apartments they've lived in for years; they're upset that they can't predict where they're going to have to move to and where their kids are going to school; the whole city is crunched.