“Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable,” wrote Heather Mac Donald, of the Manhattan Institute.44 Mac Donald is mistaken. San Francisco is eminently livable, which is why the average apartment sells for more than a million dollars. If San Francisco were unlivable, and people ceased to want to live there, the price of homes would plummet, and so too would the ranks of the homeless.
Wouldnt the point that apartments sell for a million dollars enforce the lack of growth, building of homes, and not the fact of livability? The uthors just described fhe needles underfoot and the conditioms of skid row. Is it not an assumption tht people would live elsewhere if they couls find a tech job outside of california?
