I'm sure Ed Lee was a great guy, but San Francisco is the worst-managed city I have ever seen (lived there for many years).
I don't expect improvement anytime soon, but everyone should get on board the YIMBY movement and push hard for change.
I don't expect improvement anytime soon, but everyone should get on board the YIMBY movement and push hard for change.
SF has a lot of turnover, but the few studies I've seen say it's not particularly high by US standards. Nashville, for one, is higher. (Notably this study is by MSA so it wouldn't consider someone moving from SF to say, Burlingame a departure.) https://www.abodo.com/blog/so-long-to-the-city/
You're right about being able to enjoy the city in many ways. I regularly enjoy it at my leisure, it is 45min door-to-door Bart ride away, and relatively cheap to Uber/Lyft back at any time (Compared to the premium of actually living there).
Edit: I generally agree that SF has many management problems, I just take issue with how this comment was framed. Specifically: "social justice backlash", "villainize hard working Americans", "victimize criminals". I just think that it'd be more constructive if we discussed SF without imposing such a narrow view on a complicated topic. By "references" I meant that it'd be helpful if we had some stories or articles that substantiates these claims of "social justice backlash", "villainizing Americans", "victimizing criminals". Of course it's all relative and I have my own subjective perspective on everything, but I do believe that it's possible for us to discuss this topic without resorting to phrases that trigger knee-jerk emotional responses.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/jury-reaches-v...
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/06/kate-stei...
Unless, of course, you mean to suggest that juries outside of SF are more apt to ignore the law and the evidence presented.
In the simplest case, the 'reference' could just be to live in other cities (not like L.A.). Specifically other cities that weren't all that much in the past decades and had progress in recent years, more or less as an antithesis of SF which I'd categorize as a city that was ahead of its time in 50 years ago and let the hype get too deeply engrained in its psyche and culture and stagnated since, out of a sense of isolation and self superiority.
If you lived in other places and disagree, the meat of our discussion would take entirely different paths.
Asking for a friend.
The different districts have different concerns and often do not overlap, so its hard to get consensus on big items like housing, what to do about the homeless encampments and so no.
Come election time, Lee throws his hat into the ring, to the jeers of people who cried foul.
As for getting on board the YIMBY movement, Fast Co writes that the new mayor "grew up with her grandmother in the city’s housing projects and public housing has been an important part and particular focus of her political career. "
A quick skim of voting records also appears that she supports development: https://sfgov.legistar.com/PersonDetail.aspx?ID=92842&GUID=4....
The best pro-affordable housing policy is plenty of market-rate construction.
While the housing crisis is real in SF, the "YIMBY" movement is a fairly thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction to the problem. In general in SF, developers have been getting exactly what they want since Wille Brown -- they just don't build things that help people who don't have money. SF could use some balance on the other side of the ledger.
[1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/11/12/150-million-reta...
[2] http://hoodline.com/2017/02/market-street-s-6x6-mall-opens-p...