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Comment by terminalshort

1 month ago

The realization that a large majority of the electorate is native born and the rules that prevent development existed before the immigrants got here?

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joe_mamba  1 month ago 

  - Are zoning laws affecting only immigrant born population from buying, or simply everyone moving to SF for work?
  - If the locals are preventing the foreigners to buy housing via zoning laws, then how did those immigrants manage to buy housing like you said?
  - And once immigrants become citizens and homeowners, are you saying they don't vote for the same zoning laws that protect their housing investment just like the natives?

That's where your contradictions are, and this is my last response you get on this discussion, since it's clearly not going anywhere.

  • terminalshort  1 month ago

    Let me spell it out for you. This is 100% a stupid regulation issue and has fuck all to do with immigration. If the US had a more restrictive immigration policy the same thing would have happened because so many native born Americans (including myself) moved to SV for high paying jobs. Supply and demand is what it is whether that demand comes from a US citizen or an immigrant.