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Mark A Saurus
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Mark A Saurus is a personal blog at markasaurus.com about economics and politics. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark A Saurus posts on housing and zoning costs and on shipping-container homes as places for more detail on those topics. The comments do not evaluate the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mark A Saurus is a tech blog started by Mark who loves to write on tech and teach others how to use tech gadgets properly.
What Hacker News says?
"You can't just hand-wave away red tape as a factor...in most markets building cost approximates housing cost but in SF housing cost is 140% above base housing costs. That is the cost of zoning and other red tape." I read the whole article. The source she cites for that factoid is an article that excludes apartments from its analysis. It deals only with single-family housing. Oops: http://www.nber.org/papers/w8835.p…
Comment linking /2013/10/22/why-can%E2%80%99t-developers-build-housing-in-san-francisco-for-the-people-who-need-it-most-instead-of-for-the-rich/
on “SF’s Housing Crisis Explained”Submitted Is San Francisco’s progressive politics really to blame for the housing crisis? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think this article goes into it in more detail: http://markasaurus.com/2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-...
Comment linking /2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-container-housing-everything/
on “Coming Home to a Shipping Container”Submitted Why have the tech buses invaded San Francisco? Zoning policy in the Bay Area as a story · 2 points
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