Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Are tech workers ruining San Francisco?" video.

Not sure how Americans go about it, but Europeans tend to stay at a fixed density per square meter. What that means, in real life, is that (for example): to reach optimal density, you could do two things- build 3/5-story houses next to each other, with a little bit of greenspace in between each, or opt for 10/12-story "high-rises," but space them farther apart, and add lots of greenery in between. Although, designed well, I think that even multiple 10-story buildings lined up could work fine, too. There is a reason most people want to go to big cities, after all. It's not money, because property values have soared, and yet people still flock. Why? There are loads of people and masses of things for everyone to experience!
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California's very liberally single-minded (at least politically), it can fund such a project. Most of America's GDP comes from California anyway, and they invest more into the Federal Government than is given back to them.
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So the hope is that we can have our cake and eat it, too? I hope you're privy to the fact that, at least in urban centers, there's a finite amount of space. We can only develop so much before the foreign investors need to be restricted, or removed. If they want to tax evade (which no one should be doing anyway), they should just set up a few shell companies and funnel their income through Bermuda or, for the less risky, Ireland.
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SF needs to just take the bad press and move forward with the housing projects. If done right, they could avoid legal trouble (use eminent domain, or offer NIMBY residents better housing in the new mixed-use area), and save the neighborhoods currently being gentrified by offering tech workers completely new ones.
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