Readit NewsMe: Restaurant
Google: Restaurant Supply Store
Meat Wholesale Warehouse
Place Where a Taco Cart Occasionally Parks
Former Location of a Restaurant
And the answer is: It will continue as long as people are willing to pay the rent.
I understand from your post that you are fed up with the high rent and the low quality of living. But the most important part of what you said is the fact that you are still willing to pay, and you are still willing to stay, despite all of the disadvantages. In other words, you have decided (whether you like it or not) that in your case the advantages of living in SF outweigh all of the disadvantages.
And there are many others like you. You are all collectively voting for things to continue the way they are.
Making it stop would require you (or others like you) to decide the trade-off isn't worth it.
So you think the person with 30 years experience might be, whats the word... oh right. Lying. You think they are lying.
Quit trying to dress it up. Coding tests are exactly you saying you don't believe the experience written on the resume.
"Write a function that counts the number of vowels in a string"
Candidates are allowed to run it multiple times and just have to produce a correct result within 10 minutes. It's not a trick question -- the test case in place makes sure you pay attention to case.
Success rate for mid to senior devs? Only 60%.
The Millennium Tower was not flawed. It just unfortunately bumped into the law of large numbers. Even if all future towers in SF rest on bedrock, that still wouldn't reflect poorly the judgment of the Millennium Tower architects.
Frankly, New Yorkers should be more concerned about the seismic safety of New York buildings. In terms of seismic risk vs seismic structural resilience, New York may be facing a great chance of catastrophe than San Francisco.
What do we want the system to do?
And how can we control our privacy?
Let's answer these questions first.