A Boring Dystopia

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With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents (jacobin.com)

submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know that something like this won't accomplish much, but like gun control, I'm a huge fan of making it terribly inconvenient to do the wrong thing.

It's a shame that even in a place like San Francisco, it's apparently impossible to enact rent control.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s a shame that even in a place like San Francisco, it’s apparently impossible to enact rent control.

It wasn't until very recently that SF became synonymous with progressive politics like it is today. For most of the 20th century, it was a highly conservative, "rich people," city. That kind of embedded wealth doesn't just go away within a few decades, SF is still pretty conservative at its core.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.