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San Francisco’s version of rent control lacks vacancy controls, which means landlords can re-set rents at whatever the market will bear when new rent-controlled tenants move in.
The logic is that with vacancy controls, landlords won’t invest in maintaining their properties. But the flipside is that the landlord also has a strong financial incentive to evict longstanding tenants who are paying below-market rates.
So every decade during a boom, there is a tragic, elderly face for the story of displacement.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
Each neuron connects with thousands of other neurons, giving trillions and trillions of connections—as many connections “in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way,” to quote the neuroscientist David Eagleman. It is in all that complex synaptic entanglement that our intelligence lies, not in the number of neurons, as was once thought.
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