On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, [email protected] wrote:
I hear that San Francisco isn't any better than Portland when it comes to homelessness.
A major reason in SF, as in other cities with large homeless populations, is the cost of housing. The Economist (current issue, US section) notes that in SF a family of 4 with a total income of $129.000 would spend 50% of that on a small apartment. Average rents now top $4,000 per month. Whew! Today's Washington Post reports that a woman who's lived in a predominantly black neighborhood for 40 years might be forced out because high-speed gentrification is raising rents and replacing buildings for those with higher incomes while forcing out those who cannot pay the higher prices. This is a continuing, higly complex problem that has no simple resolution. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
