I am Uruguayan and have never even visited the Bay Area. But just cry "tech bro" and move on.
>We have the tech to build super cheap housing for everyone, yet poverty and homelessness skyrocket
This is a great example of a regulatory (rather than technical) issue. Global cities should simply be built up into the stratosphere by decriminalizing construction, anything else is a policy failure.
Similarly, climate is solved by decriminalizing nuclear power.