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Or people could just stop moving to SF already. Supply and demand works two ways, and it's not like the SF housing shortage is a secret.

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But one of these is the market functioning correctly - people moving to places with good jobs. The other is the market being manipulated to serve the interests of a relatively small group of people - restricting housing supply.

No, the market is not functioning correctly. The SF housing situation is making it increasingly expensive to get workers in SF. In a functioning market this would cause businesses to set up elsewhere. This isn't happening, in part because funding is coming from a relatively small, tightly-connected group of SF-centric VCs.

So what do you suggest the companies do that already exist in the area when they need more employees? "Tough shit"? That likely won't work in a free market :)

Finding a place to live there absolutely sucks and I hope someone eventually makes progress towards fixing it but I'm not sure telling people to stop taking good jobs is going to fly.

Employ remote workers.

Open offices in other locations? Move to other locations? Allow remote work? The notion that companies just have to setup shop and maintain a primary presence in SF is ridiculous.

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