"Intergenerational Injustice"

[Irish Exit]

That may be true. They may indeed go to the wealthy. But if you increase housing supply, you are going to put downward pressure on home prices and rental rates. Assuming population increase does not occur at the same time to offset the increase in supply.

Sf only has so much land. The gentrification will continue. It is what the market does. The only way to make a difference would be to build massive public housing units and put poor and middle class people in the ghetto together. Otherwise, the rents and list prices will keep going up up up.....at least until the next big shake hits them and kills off a huge chunk of the population. Nothing like a giant disaster to make people say, "You know, Raleigh-Durham-CH seems like a good enough area to move to.

 

[Irish Exit]

From a big picture perspective we're talking about more than just SF. LA, Portland, Seattle, NY, D.C. all face these problems. Land costs, regulations etc. prevent you from building anything other than high end condos/apartments. The cities can work to change their zoning and regulations if they want to and in turn bring down costs. Otherwise this is the supply you must build.

I grew up in one of those areas and lived in another one. DC has plenty of room to sprawl as miserable as it is to commute there. NY is not dissimilar to SF and even with their high rises, the rents are outrageous. When ours jumped almost a grand per month from one lease to the next, I was out of there like Vladimir.

 

[Superfreak]

Because they are. Not my fault you all have been coddled and privileged all you fucking lives.

Yes, your racist and I'm not afraid to tell you.

that shows your racist views. Not all white people are coddled and privileged you dumb ass.

 

[cawacko]

Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials are totally made-up words, dreamed up by journalists and tabloids looking for an angle, a gimmick, to create the impression of tension, to divide people into teams, so their reporting is more titillating...more interesting...less boring. You just know one day, there was a meeting in the editorial room of the NY Times or the National Enquirer when they made these crap terms up.

Tension, the horse race, tribalism, and team competition sells. That's probably Journalism Rule Number One.

I have never been feeble minded enough to let myself get suckered by these facades and gimmicks intended to titillate and create an appearance, a veneer of tension. How many people have made money writing crappy articles using and abusing these crappy terms and themes?

I mean when you think about it, once you get away from editorial pages and message boards, how often in real life to you here people talking about the horrors of intergenerational warfare? Among peers, neighbors, colleagues, and co-workers I almost never hear it. In fact, I can't even remember the last time it came up in conversation.

Speaking of institutional racism in the other thread this topic is a perfect example. These two articles are about California but it was a country wide thing. When we look at the differences between whites and minorities housing is why. Let look at people's reaction to it. Some poor idiot troll who drops a n*bomb means little in the real world but zoning, land use and housing have very real everyday economic and educational effects. If you want to really address institutional racism, start here.



The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

The freewheeling opportunity associated with 20th-century California was not available to black residents, and that exclusion reverberates in our neighborhoods and communities today.

https://www.theatlantic.com/busines...ng-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/



L.A.'s land use rules were born out of racism and segregation. They're not worth fighting for

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/liva...tos-sb-827-housing-zoning-20180402-story.html