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Lydia Chávez
EMC Research conducted a poll on tech for the Bay Area Council and we have made a slide show for you from the pdf that is on line.
The methodology: A telephone survey of 500 likely November 2014 voters done between March 10 and March 16th. Margin of error: +4.38 percentage points The interviews were conducted by trained, professional interviewers in English and Cantonese. It’s unclear why there were none done in Spanish.
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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still there.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
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This is pure propaganda.
The Bay Are Council which paid for this “research” is a Silicon Valley based tech industry lobbying organization.
It’s a well know fact that surveys can be designed to obtain any desired result.
Nice to see some data. Most of SF likes tech buses and tech workers. Time to find a new protest target.
Bay Area Council (which paid for this white-washing) is a Tech industry lobbying organization.
It’s reasonable that they would want to know what public opinion is.
Especially if, as many of us have long said, this is more a pseudo-problem created by the media that does not reflect the thinking of most people, as the poll conclusively shows.
My reaction? How about this: Here’s a link to a more thorough, better written article than the one.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/survey-shows-support-for-sf-tech-industry-and-its-controversial-buses/Content?oid=2744866
This poll doesnt include questions pertaining to the impact tech has had on rents across SF.
If there were questions on that subject, Im confident the results would demonstrate a negative view of the tech industry along with real estate speculators and rental property owners seeking to evict long-time tenants…
Explain to me how 6% of all SF workers can be blamed for these rediculous price hikes?
Exactly. This alleged link with higher rents is unsubstantiated.
A small percentage of deep pocket players absolutely will spike the price of a product with inelastic demand (like housing).
So, YES, the 6% of highly paid tech workers have resulted in tripled rents on available apartments.
The effect of this is that nobody EXCEPT highly paid tech workers can now enter the city, and ordinary persons who are displaced must leave the city..
The real problem is that we haven’t built enough new homes (because of NIMBY land use policies) and because we see very little turnover of existing rental units (because of rent control).
Fix our inflationary land use rules and the city can easily accommodate some successful people and much needed high-value workers without undue stress.
Of course. Can we all move on now?
If the interview neglects Spanish anywhere in the state of California the results,no matter how large the sample, should not be considered representative. My opinion.
Most Spanish speaking voters also speak English, therefore its not necessary to poll in Spanish in San Francisco. Just a waste of money.
Only if the poll includes illegals.
English language skills are required to pass the US citizenship test, so if the poll was only of registered voters (presumably) then English is the only language required.
You’re leaving out every citizen born on California soil whose first language isn’t English. Duh.
How many people born in America don’t attend high school?
these results must just irk the crap out you
Yes, i have been saying for months that the silent majority are OK with tech and the shuttles, and that it is a small noisy minority who are whining.
This poll bears that out.
John, if the ‘silent majority” is anything like you, they never shut up.
If the silent majority does ever get a voice, folks like you are doomed. You rely on them keeping out of it.
You cannot do that on election day, of course. It’s between elections when the fringe left dominates the debate by making all the effort and noise.
I’m just doing my part for the little guy, by putting you on notice that we’re mad as hell and not going to take it any more.
And this poll says that in spades.
Fucktard? Really? Why is it that folks on the left cannot hear a contrary opinion without immediately resorting into obscenities and abuse? Is it that you lack the confidence in your debating skills and so vent bile rapidly as a compensation?
Your long post can be distilled into a simple allegation that there is a vast right-wing conspiracy against socialism. Not true. Americans have always been opposed to socialism.
Americans want a shot at getting rich, and they accept that along with that comes a greater disparity of outcomes.
If our system is so much worse than elsewhere, why are tens of millions of people from “elsewhere” clamoring to move here?
A more logical step for you if you really feel this way is to move to some socialist nation in Europe, Asia or South America.
Actually, fucktard, polls show Americans are to the left of center on most important issues. Anything left of center has been demonized by your friends in the MSM for decades, so few people self-identify as left-of-center anymore, but their values are clearly in the spirit of the New Deal.
The majority of Americans favor social security, single-payer health care, decriminalized drugs, environmental protection, worker protections, less military spending, prosecution of Wall Sr banksters, etc.
You don’t speak for the “silent majority.” You speak for the Koch Brothers, the Walton billionaires, and Wall St conmen Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein..
You speak for the rich and powerful sociopaths who control the government, and pillage the wealth created by working people, and who claim they are doing God’s work while they shove families out on the streets.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/26/the-economic-scam-of-the-century/
If there is a silent majority, you’re on their shitlist, bub.
Still no refutation, 2beers? Just insults?
Russo, one lousy building stopped only because you had a billionaire in your corner doesn’t mean a lot.
God, you are one twisted, paranoid, megalomaniacal nutball.
“silent majority”…”nattering nabobs of negativity”….
Nice job channeling Nixon/Agnew.
Can’t wait for you start channeling William Buckley. Wait, you have the same pompous, elitist posturing, the same constipated syntax….Bill, is that you?
8 Washington.