> (Just like bread, etc., and many other things necessary for life.) Yes, this is a very good point. You don't see people vilifying farmers for making profits

> (Just like bread, etc., and many other things necessary for life.) Yes, this is a very good point. You don't see people vilifying farmers for making profits on food, even though some people go hungry. But for some reason people hate developers for making a profit on housing. (In my opinion, all of the NIMBY arguments, very much including the vacancy one in the article, are just attempts to mask the real reason for opposing housing—a preference for the suburban lifestyle.) > But this is mostly a San Francisco and New York problem. It's not just a San Francisco and New York problem. Add Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Austin, Miami, and Boston/Cambridge to that list, just to name a few. That's not even counting non-US cities like Vancouver, London, Paris, etc. I agree that housing shortages are unevenly distributed, of course.