> In SF, the resistance to denser housing comes from the same people who are not paying enough tax for the land they are occupying. You should be careful with

> In SF, the resistance to denser housing comes from the same people who are not paying enough tax for the land they are occupying. You should be careful with "the same people" arguments. They're almost always fallacious. > Ramp up the taxes and the incentive they have to fight the denser housing will dissolve. Ramp up the taxes and the incentive they have to fight the taxes will increase proportionally. Why wouldn't they capture that just like they captured zoning? The real problem behind zoning is jurisdictional. As long as it is done on a city-by-city level, cities only have to be held accountable to the residents, not the people that they displace across their arbitrary borders. A regional jurisdiction would force zoning decisions to take into account everyone in the region, containing all the suburban residents with terrible commutes that are made worse by NIMBY protections.