Original sentence: Both were hired as "Special Assistants" at San Francisco City Hall after losing their assembly seats because of their support of Brown.In contrast, critics point to expansive and expensive hastily-built, market-rate, live-work "loft" buildings that displaced working-class residents and small businesses and created a severe housing crisis in a city with one of the largest per capita populations of homeless people in the country
Edited sentence: Both were hired as special assistants at San Francisco City Hall after losing their assembly seats because of their support of Brown.In contrast, critics point to overpriced, hastily built live-work "loft" buildings that displaced working-class residents and small businesses and created a severe housing crisis in a city with one of the largest per capita populations of homeless people in the country