<i>sigh</i>.<p>Tech workers make up ~8% of SF&#x27;s population.<p>Programmers are low-paid highly-paid workers. (<i>Especially</i> when you factor in rents in SF.)<p>If tech workers didn&#x27;t move in, it would be folks in biotech, or finance, or high-end sales, or...<p>There are many factors that drive up rents in SF. The <i>primary</i> -and by <i>far</i> largest- factor is the fact that it&#x27;s nearly impossible to build new housing. Get the City Supervisors to hang obstructionist landlords, NIMBYs, and Real Estate Investment Firms who are currently making <i>mad</i> bank [0] out to dry and you&#x27;ll -relatively- quickly see rents drop back to vaguely sane levels.<p>The enemy isn&#x27;t tech workers. The enemy is those who choose to make <i>obscene</i> profits, rather than permitting others to build housing to meet current and near-future demand.<p>[0] And have been for at <i>least</i> ten years.