On: City of San Francisco says it's illegal to live in...

[brador]

San Franciscos problem is building restrictions not high rent. Most of that is from the investor who owns a high % of property in san fran and his weight in the city.

With building regs like other cities we'd have skyscrapers to accomodate everyone who wants to live here at reasonable cost.

[seanp2k2 → brador]

The problem with that theory is: name a city where one can rent in a high-rise affordably.

[brianwawok → seanp2k2]

Chicago. Very easy to high-rise as a software dev for 25% or less of income.

[brador → seanp2k2]

For that to not be a trap you'd have to define affordably as a percentage of income.