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The political climate of America conspired against robust and correct reaction to housing shortages.

• Balgair 11y ago
  Wow. This is, at the largest, a state level issue. Mostly, it is a county or city level issue. Here, I'll go with a story. I was watching 'Star Trek: Into Darkness', the 'new' set of films. There's a scene where they chase Benedict Cumberbatch about on the top of a flying ambulance in the skyscrapers of the future San Fransisco. My brother, who lived at the time on Geary st. and was running for a seat on the business commission, was telling me that scene was too fantastic for him. Not because, you know, aliens and star ships. No, but that in a mere 200 years the SF housing and construction boards would allow that many skyscrapers. Proper city planning to him was more fantastic than Star Trek. Now, people really want to live in SF these days. It's not a political climate that is keeping them from building more apartments. It is real stupid, very tiny, small world and small people, corruption and bribery. It is the same story as it always has been. People complain but don't do anything about it.