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Tech-rooted groups seek to shake up San Francisco politics

Tech-rooted groups seek to shake up San Francisco politics

a year ago
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https://apnews.com/article/tech-san-francisco-politics-crime-housing-7ab344243599d619db3b92d9ed74bb81

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech entrepreneurs who flocked to San Francisco two decades ago bringing jobs and wealth, and also soaring housing prices and gentrification, are becoming a rising political force in a city they say is woefully off track.

They are forming advocacy organizations — among them Together SF, Abundant SF and Grow SF — to pressure officials to tackle soaring housing costs, public drug dealing and other woes exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.