<story><title>Evicted in San Francisco</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/evicted-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jseliger</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Nonetheless, it’s a good time to be a Bornstein in San Francisco: in the past year alone, Ellis Act evictions have risen 170%; since 1997, there have been 3,811, and that number is constantly rising.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to increase supply, as described here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B0078XGJXO&lt;/a&gt;) or here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlanticcities.com&amp;#x2F;housing&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;san-francis...&lt;/a&gt;). I&amp;#x27;ve posted both links before but we keep seeing stories like these and the solutions remain the same.&lt;p&gt;The technology necessary to increase housing supply (steel frames, elevators) is a century old (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slate.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;moneybox&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;silicon_valle...&lt;/a&gt;) and well-understood. The problem is almost entirely political.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s amazing how so many people refuse to accept that out-of-control housing prices are due to artificial scarcity, and that the solution is deregulation, rather than even more idiotic rent control and eviction regulations. David Campos is now trying to enact legislation to penalize Ellis Act evictions.&lt;p&gt;More than two decades after the USSR collapsed, and people are still clinging to socialist ideologies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Evicted in San Francisco</title><url>http://priceonomics.com/evicted-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jseliger</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Nonetheless, it’s a good time to be a Bornstein in San Francisco: in the past year alone, Ellis Act evictions have risen 170%; since 1997, there have been 3,811, and that number is constantly rising.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The obvious solution to rapidly rising prices is to increase supply, as described here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XGJXO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B0078XGJXO&lt;/a&gt;) or here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlanticcities.com&amp;#x2F;housing&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;san-francis...&lt;/a&gt;). I&amp;#x27;ve posted both links before but we keep seeing stories like these and the solutions remain the same.&lt;p&gt;The technology necessary to increase housing supply (steel frames, elevators) is a century old (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valley_housing_boom_there_s_no_such_thing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.slate.com&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;moneybox&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;silicon_valle...&lt;/a&gt;) and well-understood. The problem is almost entirely political.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; that number is constantly rising&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a lie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://infogr.am/ellis-act-evictions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;infogr.am&amp;#x2F;ellis-act-evictions&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>