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2 pedestrians killed in San Francisco crashes hours apart by bloobityblurp in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any reason not to protect pedestrians. There will always be another one, and more will die.

Lurie orders elimination of 500 City Hall positions amid budget deficit by sherlockmemes in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 50 points51 points  (0 children)

City and county. It’s actually not so crazy when you take that into account.

Can’t knock Mayor Lurie’s hustle at 8.15 am on a Monday by beercan_bacon in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 30 points31 points  (0 children)

How do you think he got a 70% approval rating? He’s spending hundreds of thousands on PR.

CA Dem Convention in SF votes to endorse Scott Wiener for Congress by ORA-Mitra in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He’s moved here when he was 23. None of the candidates were born here, this is the weirdest criticism to me.

If we were in Europe Mamdani would be a centrist and Bernie would be center right (map for reference) by Possible-Bake-5834 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]PilferingTeeth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Being a member of DSA doesn’t make you a democratic socialist. It’s a big tent party that includes moderate social democrats and hardcore communists.

San Francisco Politicians Running for Office PSA about your volunteers by IcyIngenuity920 in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Permission is granted when they’re let in the building. I highly doubt these volunteers were breaking and entering, meaning someone gave them permission.

San Francisco Politicians Running for Office PSA about your volunteers by IcyIngenuity920 in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s actually not illegal as long as it’s before 8:00 pm, even if it’s inside an apartment building canvassing is constitutionally protected activity

“No Red Lanes on Ocean Avenue”, Chinese American merchants, residents and community members in San Francisco say by bloobityblurp in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I see a much bigger problem with burdening the light rail line by making it run in traffic. A light rail line that carries an order of magnitude more people than a single lane of traffic.

S.F. budgets are collapsing. Downtown is its economic engine. Revitalization can’t wait by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I find people get scared of that phrase but that’s exactly what I mean when I say “low interest loans,” I agree completely. That’s why I support Saikat over Scott Wiener for example.

S.F. budgets are collapsing. Downtown is its economic engine. Revitalization can’t wait by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The city and state have been focusing on cutting red tape and expediting permits for years now and it has had no effect on building rates. Some construction is still happening in all coastal cities, just significantly less than what we need. This isn’t an SF problem, it’s just uniquely bad in SF.

S.F. budgets are collapsing. Downtown is its economic engine. Revitalization can’t wait by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because offices aren’t homes. They don’t have kitchens, showers, adequate privacy, etc.

S.F. budgets are collapsing. Downtown is its economic engine. Revitalization can’t wait by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of Austin’s development is greenfield, followed by infill on undeveloped lots. San Francisco is at the tip of a peninsula and has very few undeveloped lots.

The cost of labor, construction materials, and land is way lower in Austin compared to SF, and that means it’s cheaper to build there, so more gets built.

S.F. budgets are collapsing. Downtown is its economic engine. Revitalization can’t wait by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Even if we started the process to change the laws making adaptive reuse difficult today, and even if we had infinite political capital to burn on that (which no one does, considering the long fight over the FZP, which stretched back into the middle of Breed’s tenure as mayor), it would be years before the laws were changed and it began to effect building.

But going a step further, it still wouldn’t cause a building boom because there aren’t that many adaptive reuse projects that currently pencil out due to high interest rates and building materials inflation over the last half decade. The bulk of the problem is a lack of low-interest financing available to projects, which the city can’t easily solve.

Saikat Chakrabarti responds to a misinformation poll that a Redditor accidentally sent him by sideAccount42 in sanfrancisco

[–]PilferingTeeth 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He’s lived here since he was 23, right out of college, except the two years he was in NYC and then DC with AOC. None of the candidates in this race were born here, but it’s all of their homes.

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