This is manifestly untrue. The city has been out of vacant land since 1954 and common talk of a "housing crisis" in San Francisco started in at least 1966 [0].

This is manifestly untrue. The city has been out of vacant land since 1954 and common talk of a "housing crisis" in San Francisco started in at least 1966 [0]. We have been failing to build enough housing to meet demand for decades. What is true is that for decades people who came here at some time in the past complain about how newcomers are overturning its way of life, despite having been newcomers themselves at one point.[1] Aging hippies complained in the 80s that yuppies were ruining the Haight, despite having been "neighborhood-ruiners" themselves when they came in the 1960s; the Mission used to be an Irish and Italian neighborhood before it was the center of Latino culture in the city, but it's the neighborhood most vociferously complaining about newcomers and insisting on building moratoriums to stop the neighborhood from changing.[2] It's all deeply hypocritical and unprincipled, but also completely unsurprising. tl;dr: San Francisco has always been an expensive place to live and we've never built enough housing to meet demand [3] [0] https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employment-construction-and-cost-of-san.html https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme... [1] https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/15/san-franciscos-current-boom-repeats-an-old-story/ https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/15/san-franciscos-current-... [2] http://sfist.com/2015/10/07/san_francisco_has_always_been_a_pre.php http://sfist.com/2015/10/07/san_francisco_has_always_been_a_... [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-francisco-housing-crisis_us_5750a95ee4b0eb20fa0d682e http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-francisco-housing-cr...