Democrat par ty controlled cities...more violent and less accessible to middle class....

[2aguy]

Yes, not only are 24 of the 25 most violent cities under democrat control....democrat cities are out of reach of the middle class...

Why Middle-Class Americans Can t Afford to Live in Liberal Cities - The Atlantic

But there's a second reason why San Francisco's problem is emblematic of a national story. Liberal cities seem to have the worst affordability crises, according to Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko.

In a recent article, Kolko divided the largest cities into 32 “red" metros where Romney got more votes than Obama in 2012 (e.g. Houston), 40 “light-blue” markets where Obama won by fewer than 20 points (e.g. Austin), and 28 “dark-blue” metros where Obama won by more than 20 points (e.g. L.A., SF, NYC). Although all three housing groups faced similar declines in the recession and similar bounce-backs in the recovery, affordability remains a bigger problem in the bluest cities.

Even after adjusting for differences of income, liberal markets tend to have higher income inequality and worse affordability,” Kolko said.

Kolko's theory isn't an outlier. There is a deep literature tying liberal residents to illiberal housing policies that create affordability crunches for the middle class. In 2010, UCLA economist Matthew Kahn published a study of California cities, which found that liberal metros issued fewer new housing permits. The correlation held over time: As California cities became more liberal, he said, they built fewer homes.

The middle class can 8217 t afford to live in liberal cities Hot Air

That’s progressive-speak for wondering what somebody who works a blue collar job is supposed to do when they live in a place where decent apartments cost more than a million dollars.

But, he argues, liberal populations take that one step further and add layers of environmental protection requirements on to building codes. (Think of things like requiring that most of the building’s water be recycled or that a certain percent of the electricity it consumes has to be generated by solar panels.) That compounds the problem, pushing the cost further out of reach for the middle class.

So, rich democrats live in cities where they are surrounded by the poor, they helped create, and walled off from the violence they refuse to fix....it keeps them close to their voting base....but not too close...just close enough...

Yeah, the democrats are the party of the working class......