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In reply to the discussion: With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees [View all]msongs
(67,193 posts)21. simple - hire the homeless and street people nt
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With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees [View all]
Newsjock
Oct 2015
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I expect there will be more of this all around the country as rental and housing prices increase in
smirkymonkey
Oct 2015
#3
Very important issue and dilemma, self inflicted by gross income inequality. The gentrification
appalachiablue
Oct 2015
#6
I believe it. The cities I mentioned are rapidly undergoing change in the last 5-15+ years and
appalachiablue
Oct 2015
#11
Excellent KamaAina, glad you spoke up! A very troubling issue, American Rural Poverty
appalachiablue
Oct 2015
#66
You know it. I live near BS Springs, and my place is worth 550k, but the taxes...
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#17
The difference re: NYC is that there are cheaper Burroughs with good mass transit for commutes
stevenleser
Oct 2015
#62
And the people who've been dutifully working for years get bypassed by the new hires.
NBachers
Oct 2015
#30
And such people should have no trouble finding new jobs that pay them their fair market value (nt)
Nye Bevan
Oct 2015
#42
Yeah, 500 square foot condos starting at $1m will solve all SF's housing woes
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2015
#26
"the market" wants to build pied-a-terres for the super-wealthy and
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2015
#31
And would an outcome like that in New York, London, Toronto or Vancouver be desireable?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2015
#44
Very good point and a foul reality that's rapidly getting worse in metro areas.
appalachiablue
Oct 2015
#64
And where were they when all those people that would have filled those position were being evicted?
threethirteen
Oct 2015
#36
This is a furniture store, so they were probably cheering the approach of another DINK couple
Recursion
Oct 2015
#39
Thank you for bringing up the pathetic SF public transportation system. Recursion
spiderpig
Oct 2015
#58