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New York City is vast. Brooklyn alone is 40% larger than San Francisco.
by nerfhammer 10y ago
New York City is vast. Brooklyn alone is 40% larger than San Francisco.
- davidw 10y agoIf you're talking about outlying areas, the rest of the bay area is amazingly not dense given how expensive housing is.
- vonmoltke 10y agoYou can't really compare a single municipality to several that collectively equal it's size. The latter case has a whole lot of more localized and conflicting political interests that serve to hold back the area as a whole.
- davidw 10y agoI know they're different politically - I'm comparing the results, which are terrible.
- nerfhammer 10y agoNote New York City has less of these issues because over the centuries it gained control of its neighboring areas from other counties, something San Francisco never did.
- sampo 10y agoBut given how fervently anti-development San Francisco itself also is, would it even have helped?
- _delirium 10y agoSan Francisco looks positively pro-development compared to places like Palo Alto. At least they allow townhomes, not requiring detached houses with large lots. If more of the Peninsula were even near SF levels of density, the housing issues would be a lot less severe.