Thinking the tech industry is the problem is pretty much like saying you get a cold because you go out in cold weather.<p>It&#x27;s not true, but it sounds right if you don&#x27;t look too close.<p>The tech industry isn&#x27;t the cause of anything but growth. Growth isn&#x27;t bad. Growth is totally manageable. It&#x27;s not like these issues magically showed up in the tech boom of the 90s - it just made them worse.<p>However what DID cause this: bad urban planning, lack of ability to change, being systemically unable to fix the housing issues over the last 40 years.<p>Plenty of places cope with growth periods better than SF, but SF doesn&#x27;t want to cope with them: it wants to have it&#x27;s cake and eat it too. It can&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s been trying for a long time and failing horribly.<p>This is not a new development. It&#x27;s not a new problem. The solutions have been the same for a long time but no-one wants to change to fix them.