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SergeStorms

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8. They're gentrifying every bit of San Francisco.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 12:29 AM

Jul 2019

Techies have taken over everything. The Tenderloin, Dogpatch, Hunter's Point.......you name it, gentrification has taken over every nook and cranny of San Francisco. No one can afford to live there anymore but high-paid techies.

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San Francisco: wealthy opponents of new shelter claim homeless are bad for environment [View all] friendly_iconoclast Jul 2019 OP

I don't know the origins of the term, but redistribution of wealth is another term... Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #1

We do have a redistribution of wealth True_Blue Jul 2019 #16

THey're Living Off Everyone Else's Taxes Me. Jul 2019 #2

pre-construction zoning nuisances bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 #3

Anyone tell them the 'wealthy' have and continue to destroy society? elleng Jul 2019 #4

Another example of NIMBY! B Stieg Jul 2019 #5

It's all these transplant tech residents who brought new developments on the Embarcadero. kimbutgar Jul 2019 #6

So building housing for the homeless is bad for the environment DBoon Jul 2019 #7

Exactly what I was thinking. nt Akacia Jul 2019 #12

They're gentrifying every bit of San Francisco. SergeStorms Jul 2019 #8

Here's the one I like "Build luxury condos, & set some development money aside for low-cost housing" NBachers Jul 2019 #9

The wealthy are bad for the environment! What's worse a new Tesla or a ... marble falls Jul 2019 #10

Carlin had it right years ago... moonseller66 Jul 2019 #11

California has 30% conservatives ROB-ROX Jul 2019 #13

There are lots of assholes here who are liberals too ansible Jul 2019 #14

I don't know how this is construed as "neoliberal" eilen Jul 2019 #15