[HN Gopher] S.F. plans to rezone the city to allow the productio...
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       S.F. plans to rezone the city to allow the production of just
       34,000 new homes
        
       Author : jseliger
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-10-08 18:51 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sfchronicle.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfchronicle.com)
        
       | moneycantbuy wrote:
       | sf isn't for me anymore. it was okay for getting job experience
       | but the housing has always been squalor. always needed
       | housemates, even when making >$100k/yr. i am currently in an
       | apartment there, unable to get good sleep due to constant
       | noise/vibrations of people stomping around above and in the
       | stairwell next to my bed. streets lined with homeless, hypodermic
       | needles etc. all for the pleasure of a long commute into an empty
       | office for a product that will likely never see the light of day.
       | hoping i can find meaningful community with decent housing and a
       | living wage elsewhere. open to suggestions.
        
         | bicx wrote:
         | I'm enjoying chill vibes over here in Alameda.
        
         | diebeforei485 wrote:
         | The places with long commutes to the office tend to not have
         | hypodermic needles.
        
         | pknomad wrote:
         | Same. I came to this realization during the pandemic. I loved
         | the tech and startup culture but that only holds your interest
         | for so long. I would love to live somewhere cheaper and has
         | more vibrant small city life.
        
         | yrgulation wrote:
         | Remote work. There are many pushing hard against it, for
         | various selfish reasons, but in my view its here to stay. Gives
         | you the freedom to move anywhere. I am not from the us, but the
         | uk has a similar issue with london. Crime, overcrowding,
         | pollution, expensive housing, have killed the love for that
         | city for me.
        
       | kqr2 wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/l3mRc
        
       | fakethenews2022 wrote:
       | Funny how the new housing goes into the heavily Chinese American
       | areas of the city but completely sidesteps the richer white areas
       | like Russian Hill, Seacliff, Marina, Cow Hollow, St Francis Wood,
       | and Cole Valley. Those rich white areas have even less new
       | housing development.
       | 
       | https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=File:Racial-distribu...
        
       | stjohnswarts wrote:
       | Until SF gives the NIMBYs the middle finger and goes ahead and
       | completely revises the zoning laws to open up a whole lot more
       | the housing crisis will continue, this is a bandaid that gives
       | into NIMBYism yet again.
        
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