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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Downtown is dying. Vacancy rates are throw the roof, which are driving down property values which will mean radically lower property tax revenues, which will blow a giant hole in the city's budget. But, sure, let's focus on...[checks notes]...making buses free?

This is what it's like to be ruled by children. 
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What is the city government supposed to do to get workers back in empty offices, exactly?[/quote]

Isn't that kind of their job to figure these things out?[/quote]

Their job to figure out how to get companies to change remote-work policies that they were forced to implement during an unexpected global pandemic and proved very popular? That seems a bit beyond the purview of city government somehow, no? Their job is to figure out what they need to do to adjust to a new reality in how people work.[/quote]

Part of the city is dying, and that alone seems bad enough, but it promises to bring the city's budget down with it. So, yeah, that kind of seems like it's part of their job. I know politicians just want to hand out goodies to people all day long but sometimes they have to do hard things too. [/quote]

Again, I don't see how the city is supposed to force workers back into their offices when the workers' employers aren't able to do that. I do think the city's job is to figure out what to do if some large share of the workforce is only in their offices about three days a week, and I agree it's a problem, but I don't think "get back to work, office drones!" is really a municipal government policy problem.[/quote]

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