I think this is the key passage: > Reading opposition to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling thought: What Republicans w

I think this is the key passage: > Reading opposition to SB 50 and other efforts at increasing density, I’m struck by an unsettling thought: What Republicans want to do with ICE and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and NIMBYism. Preserving “local character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out. California's failure to address the housing crisis isn't an economic failure; it's a moral one. Moving to a high-productivity city has long been the best way for Americans to better their prospects and their childrens' future. That opportunity is still available to the handful of engineers who can move to SF and pull down $150k-200k right out of college, but it's increasingly a thing of the past. It's been dismantled by wealthy homeowners who don't want to share their cities with the wrong sort of people. The fact that many of them are self-described progressives and theoretically in favor of greater equality doesn't make this worse, but it certainly is ironic.