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		dkokelley on Sept 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rent Affordability Gap in San Francisco > Another alternative is to incentivize the poor to leave high cost areas and spread out to where they could be housed more affordably/safely/sanely. That incentive exists in the form of cost-of-living savings.

twoodfin on Sept 29, 2013 [–]

Sure, but is that enough? How do you create "Universal Housing" if some poor person living in San Francisco stubbornly refuses to buy a bus ticket to Montana?

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