> If the US was an authoritarian dictatorship and we bulldozed every single family home in the Bay Area No where in the Bay Area "is built out" so there's no n

> If the US was an authoritarian dictatorship and we bulldozed every single family home in the Bay Area No where in the Bay Area "is built out" so there's no need to bulldoze single family homes. There's lot of parking lots, abandoned or under-utilized malls (e.g. Valco) and land zoned for other uses like office or manufacturing that can be used for new construction. I'm pretty sure building more alone won't solve the affordability problem, but it will stop prices from rising. As it stands as a software engineer I can't afford rent in the average San Francisco apartment (I live in Oakland, so I'm OK for now). But that's why many housing advocates support the three Ps: Production, Protection and Preservation. These three ideas combine to build more homes, protect exist tenants from abuses and to preserve existing affordable housing stock such as SROs. Zoning is not a magic pill for ending the crisis, but we can't even begin to do things like build government subsidized housing when communities spend 20 years battling one apartment building to house 28 families [0]. 0: https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1128517407486517248?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1128517407486517248?r...