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Steven Bacio
Personal blog · sbuss.substack.com · on HN as busspoliticseconomics
Steven Bacio writes sbuss.dev, a personal blog at sbuss.substack.com about politics and economics. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “When did things go wrong in San Francisco?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on San Francisco policy, including homelessness, housing zoning, and schools. Commenters cite it as a source and as a sketch of a plan to end street homelessness.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Towards a New Liberalism. Click to read sbuss.dev, by Steven Bacio,
Most-linked posts?
- When did things go wrong in San Francisco?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-19
What Hacker News says?
For decades, San Francisco hasn't been building enough new units to house even just the children of natives[1], to say nothing of those like you and I who were born elsewhere and dreamed of moving here. The people who "gave the poorest folks nowhere to go" were the ones who voted to prohibit the construction of anything but single-family houses[2] in 76% of the city[3]. [1] https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Ep…
Comment linking /p/when-did-things-go-wrong-in-san-francisco
on “Arrest made in Bob Lee case. Alleged killer also worked in tech”Submitted Crime, Punishment, and Chesa Boudin as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI just skimmed very briefly, and the above link seems to just be defining terms and establishing a model of homelessness. Part 2[0] has the first part of the plan, "mitigation", which seems to boil down to add a bunch of prefab structures as homeless shelters. Part 3[1] is the next step, "prevention": rental assistance, eviction defense (already exists, but underfunded), and informing residents of the programs. And…
Comment linking /p/plan-to-end-street-homelessness-part-3
on “San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis”Submitted Understanding Homelessness in San Francisco as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI like Steven Buss's sketch of a strategy for dealing with homelessness in SF: https://sbuss.substack.com/p/plan-to-end-street-homelessness...
Comment linking /p/plan-to-end-street-homelessness-part-1
on “San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis”Submitted I'm quitting Google to build open source tools for political activism as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese political administrators collaborate with the teachers' unions. For example, they kept schools closed for two years in exchange for teachers endorsing them and voting for them. This is well-known. The successful recalls in SF disrupted this cozy arrangement. https://sbuss.substack.com/p/four-reasons-to-recall-the-scho...
Comment linking /p/four-reasons-to-recall-the-school
on “Half of Black High School Students in the Bay Area Can Barely Read”Submitted When did things go wrong in San Francisco? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn demographic and vibe, sure, but the built environment is very much the same. The city was even _downzoned_ in 1978 [1] to keep single family homes at the end of their life from being demolished and rebuilt into denser apartments: 76% of the city would be rezoned as single family home only. https://sbuss.substack.com/p/when-did-things-go-wrong-in-san...
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on “Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness”Submitted Formula Retail: How did we get here? as a story · 1 points
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