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San Francisco’s crisis looks like New York’s future
New York Post ^ | July 8,2018 | KAROL MARKOWICZ

Posted on 07/09/2018 1:26:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk

At CityLab, Gabriel Metcalf wrote that he specifically moved to San Francisco for its progressive policies but that those policies have caused a housing shortage of epic proportions. “San Francisco progressives chose to stick with their familiar stance of opposing new development, positioning themselves as defenders of the city’s physical character,” he wrote.

And: “Over the years, these anti-development sentiments were translated into restrictive zoning, the most cumbersome planning and building approval process in the country, and all kinds of laws and rules that make it uniquely difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to add housing in San Francisco.”

Likewise, New York’s commitment to rent stabilization and rent control means a lack of the necessary housing development. And in many cases, instead of building more housing, the city is simply “rezoning” areas to produce more affordable homes.

Both San Francisco and New York City are one-party towns. They’re incubators of uber-liberal policies. Both cities have produced astonishing inequality, an ever-shrinking middle class and a deepening homeless problem. Both cities are throwing money at the issue and hoping something works out.

But people generally will only tolerate human poop on sidewalks for so long. New York needs to stop following San Francisco down its poop-filled road before conventions start thinking twice about visiting.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; california; election2018; election2020; feces; gentrification; homeless; illegals; newyork; newyorkcity; poop; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 07/09/2018 1:26:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

A close friend used to speak of “San Francesspool” and people would say he was rude.

Now I believe he was right.


2 posted on 07/09/2018 1:28:32 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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3 posted on 07/09/2018 1:31:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Hojczyk

bookmark


4 posted on 07/09/2018 1:32:02 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Hojczyk

“Gabriel Metcalf wrote that he specifically moved to San Francisco for its progressive policies..”

Well, you got them...asshole.


5 posted on 07/09/2018 1:33:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

SF is a liberal paradise. With no real political opposition, the liberals can do whatever they want.

So he’s not happy?? Living the liberal dream??? He needs to know, given the totalitarian nature of liberals and leftists, he could be in deep Doo Doo with the powers that be.


6 posted on 07/09/2018 1:37:55 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Hojczyk

Progressives always turn things to crap.


7 posted on 07/09/2018 1:39:07 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Hojczyk

Smells like.......Utopia!


8 posted on 07/09/2018 1:44:27 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Both Manhattan and San Fran are built-out. There are no remaining "vacant lots" to initiate new housing. The only direction is up. Manhattan is already pretty high and its unthinkable for locals to further mar the SF skyline.

No more local workers - they all being brought in and out by mass transit.

That's the way it is in an enclosed high-demand location.

9 posted on 07/09/2018 1:45:14 PM PDT by corkoman
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“Both cities have produced astonishing inequality, an ever-shrinking middle class and a deepening homeless problem.”

Socialism always ends the same way.


10 posted on 07/09/2018 1:49:18 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Hojczyk

“throwing money at the issue”

Most of which goes to government employees or contracts that have nice paybacks to the rulers.

That’s what they care about. Don’t expect improvement.


11 posted on 07/09/2018 1:58:05 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: MeganC

Actually, that moniker is too kind


12 posted on 07/09/2018 2:08:21 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Call RedHen (540) 464-4401 and make no-show reservations)
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To: Hojczyk

Face it these fascist progressives are really elitists!


13 posted on 07/09/2018 2:10:34 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Hojczyk

Progressive = regressive.


14 posted on 07/09/2018 2:18:35 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Hojczyk
"slums with a view"

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)

15 posted on 07/09/2018 2:32:28 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: laplata

Progressives always turn things to crap.


Yes. The fundamental transformation Obummer promised came from the Dems “fundaments.”

Never thought of that until just now. Honest.


16 posted on 07/09/2018 2:36:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Hojczyk

“Likewise, New York’s commitment to rent stabilization and rent control means a lack of the necessary housing development.”

Rent control only applies to apartments occupied by the same tenant since 1962. Rent stabilization applies to buildings build before 1973.


17 posted on 07/09/2018 2:48:55 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Hojczyk

Time to dig out my 70s bumper sticker: If it’s Brown, flush it.


18 posted on 07/09/2018 2:53:18 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: MeganC

I have called the city “San Fransicko”.

My wife disapproves. So out of respect, I limit my use of that term.


19 posted on 07/09/2018 2:54:28 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Hojczyk

If you’re going
To San Francisco
Just be aware
Of all the horrors there


20 posted on 07/09/2018 2:54:30 PM PDT by equaviator (`)
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