“It was a terrible misjudgement,” he said. Even so, “I do not regret the message at all. Any time the majority starts to demonize any minority, no matter what it is, it is wrong and dangerous.”
Hans Johnson, a research fellow at the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco, said the city’s success in boosting unemployment had the unintended consequence of deepening its housing issues.
“Demand has increased dramatically, because the economy has come back strongly and that’s led by increases in tech,” Johnson said. “When people get frustrated and they look around for a scapegoat, they see tech workers and the tech industry.”