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In principle, it’s fine to use the levers of urban politics to redistribute the wealth an economic boom creates in San Francisco.
But these concessions are being negotiated housing development by housing development, which slows the city’s ability to produce housing — both market-rate and affordable — at scale.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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Harvard professor Robert Putnam documents a marked decline in American social capital, and notes that commute time is more predictive than almost any other variable he measured in determining civic engagement. He states that "each ten additional minutes in daily commuting time cuts involvement in community affairs by ten percent-fewer public meetings attended, fewer committees chaired, fewer petitions signed, fewer church services attended, and so on.”
Ideology is not a set of attitudes that people can “have,” as they have a cold, and throw off the same way. Human beings live in human societies by negotiating a certain social terrain, whose map they keep alive in their minds by the collective, ritual repetition of the activities they must carry out in order to negotiate the terrain. If the terrain changes, so must their activities, and therefore so must the map.
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