IMO, When you account for political clout, the wealthy residents of Marin and Santa Monica have much more influence in the process than the tenants in Boyle He

IMO, When you account for political clout, the wealthy residents of Marin and Santa Monica have much more influence in the process than the tenants in Boyle Heights or East Oakland. The former uses the rhetoric and coopts the message of the latter to further their exclusive tendencies. When you look at the cross tab data, poorer people in California are much more likely to support more home building, and the people who skew "anti-building" are usually white home owners over 60 years old. The big issue that we seem to have in SF is that the neighborhoods that historically the poorest and most neglected (the mission and soma) are basically the only neighborhoods that are zoned for a reasonable density of new construction, while the wealthiest neighborhoods (pac heights, west portal) have been able to get ahead of the planning process and ensure that they will be able to remain low density. We should be building new housing in wealthy exclusionary neighborhoods like the west side of LA, and much of SF instead of allowing it in a few formerly industrial areas.