> Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere. Which increases infrastructure demands, which increases labor require

> Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere. Which increases infrastructure demands, which increases labor requirements, which increases housing demands ... > I don't understand how anyone can say with a straight face that adding more housing exacerbates the problem of not having enough housing. Why is it so hard to understand that ecosystems have equilibriums, and that changing one variable never occurs in isolation, and doesn't magically maintain a balanced system? > It's not like there's infinite demand, and if you add ten million houses then eleven million people will instantly move to San Francisco. You don't say that giving a starving man food will only make his problems worse. There's also not infinite supply. Not of resources, not of land, not of infrastructure. It's not like you can add "ten million houses" and expect that you'll somehow solve affordability in isolation. That's just naive 5th grade economics. > Just curious, do you own real estate in San Francisco? No, I moved away from San Francisco, and bought something elsewhere. If I owned real estate in San Francisco -- and didn't care about quality of life -- density would be good for my pocket book.