City planning requires proportions, but cities keep building more office space without building the residential space for those workers to live in. For example,

City planning requires proportions, but cities keep building more office space without building the residential space for those workers to live in. For example, San Francisco has added over 170,000 new jobs since 2010 and has a stretch goal to build 5000 homes each year. It just doesn't add up. So what am I to do? I'm the white tech worker living in a building with predominantly lower income families. If developers were allowed to build more condos I'd probably be living in one of them. Also, consider what "luxury" means in this context. They're expensive because they're expensive to build and superficially nicer than older things. Once there's enough of them and some newer ones down the street they won't be "luxury" any more. > advocating for deregulated real estate development markets Not blindly deregulating, though. The YIMBY coalition near me includes a lot of socialists. It's entirely possible to build the needed housing without displacing vulnerable communities.