The crappy student apartments where I went to school housed upper-class families in their day (before suburbanization). It happens. Deteriorated grandeur has a

The crappy student apartments where I went to school housed upper-class families in their day (before suburbanization). It happens. Deteriorated grandeur has a certain charm. More to the point, there are plenty of homes that were affordable and in disrepair not long ago, that are now going for $1M+ in exactly the same physical shape. San Francisco’s problem is definitely not that its housing stock is too nice.