{"id":15812,"date":"2016-03-28T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15812"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:10:49","slug":"nytimes-com-in-san-francisco-and-rooting-for-a-tech-comeuppance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15812","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com | In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Comeuppance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/09\/technology\/in-san-francisco-and-rooting-for-a-tech-slowdown.html?_r=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/07fallout2-mediumThreeByTwo378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For every person who moves to San Francisco, another two start commuting to work here. Traffic is down to a crawl: The average afternoon speed on the roads feeding into the highways has dropped 20 percent in the last two years. And the BART trains are squeezed tight: Since 2012, average morning rush-hour ridership from the East Bay has risen 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Signs of distress are plentiful. The Fraternite Notre Dame\u2019s soup kitchen was facing eviction after a rent increase of nearly 60 percent. (It was saved for a year after its plight received worldwide publicity.) Two eviction-defense groups were evicted in favor of a start-up that intended to lease the space to other start-ups. The real estate site Redfin published a widely read blog post that said the number of teachers in San Francisco who could afford a house was exactly zero.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;All the renters I know are living in fear,&#8217; said Derrick Tynan-Connolly, a teacher at a high school for pregnant teenagers and young mothers. &#8216;If your landlord dies, if your landlord sells the building, if you get evicted under the Ellis Act&#8217; \u2014 a controversial law that allows landlords to reclaim a building by taking it off the rental market \u2014 &#8216;and you have to move, you\u2019re gone. There\u2019s no way you can afford to stay in San Francisco.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at the New York Times online: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/09\/technology\/in-san-francisco-and-rooting-for-a-tech-slowdown.html\">In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Comeuppance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For every person who moves to San Francisco, another two start commuting to work here. Traffic is down to a crawl: The average afternoon speed on the roads feeding into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[44,1096,144,964,974,991,25],"class_list":["post-15812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-affordable-housing","tag-growth","tag-housing","tag-san-francisco","tag-tech","tag-traffic","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15815,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812\/revisions\/15815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}