Solution is to build more housing. This, however, cuts against two powerful San Francisco voting blocs, and the source of its problems: homeowners and entrenched subsidized renters.
Solution is to build more housing. This, however, cuts against two powerful San Francisco voting blocs, and the source of its problems: homeowners and entrenched subsidized renters.
I'm a yimby fwiw, but as new york has shown you can have both density and an affordability issue—density isn't a a cure-all.
And what's perhaps most annoying is that certain minority activist groups also actively block new development. The mission hasn't been developed much, but it's not for lack of trying.
Yeah, we have been there, tried that and it was a disaster.
More housing might be the answer, but more public housing projects is definitely not the answer.
> but more public housing projects
Who brought this up, other than you?
Sorry, but it’s my hope we actually learn from our mistakes.