[presorted]

It seems that the Bay area is weaving a story that blames tech for displacing everyone else earning less money, rather than fix the artificial scarcity of housing that drives prices up.

Edit: suggestion for people riding the busses: be prepared with fliers to hand out to the demonstrators, urging them to fight for city growth as a way to combat the high housing costs. This could help turn their energy to positive benefits for everyone. I can already imagine how the news articles would cover the scenario of trapped bus riders handing out fliers.

[kps]

I'm sure a large fraction of the ‘gentrifiers’ would actually rather not spend a couple hours every day on a bus — they themselves are simply priced out of homes close to work by the entrenched SV residents who vote to prop up their own property values with extremely unbalanced zoning regulations, bringing in ego edifices holding tens of thousands of employees while excluding anywhere for them to live.

[mwfunk]

This is absolutely not true. It's way more affordable for pretty much every single one of them to all live in the South Bay with a 10-20 minute commute. They live in SF because it's less "boring", as if boredom comes from where you live rather than one's own lack of imagination. I know tons and tons of people who do the SF/SV commute every day, but only one of them lives in the city for any other reason.

[kisil_reboot]

"Priced out" is not strictly accurate - San Francisco is still more expensive than the peninsula. But it's only slightly more expensive, so the cost factor doesn't provide much incentive to skip the city. If I'm going to pay through the nose anyway, I might as well live somewhere I'll like.