Vulnerable Housing In San Francisco

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Because of my husband has family in San Francisco; therefore, I visited there quite often. San Francisco is similar to Vancouver, Canada; a place that I lived for almost twenty years. It is remarkably attractive that the city is close to the ocean. Nonetheless, that is one of the primary cause the city is extremely vulnerable.


The housing's structures and building material are one of the main reason that causes San Francisco is one of the most vulnerable towns in the United States. "Much of the city was built on sand, landfill, and other non-compacted soil, which is subject to liquefaction" (Paxton, 2004). Most houses in San Francisco are build in the 19th centuries, and these houses are lack of maintenance. It became vulnerable when there

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