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SF cannot "just" build massive amounts of housing, in any reality-based sense.

• EricE 5y ago
  They could if the government and NIMBY neighbors would get out of the way. SF's housing problems are entirely self-created and also very solvable. No one wants to change in order to solve them, so the situation continues to get worse. Decades of single issue voting for idiot politicians leads to idiotic policies that literally are destroying what used to be one of the finest cities in America. People need to stop leaving SF and instead clean it up. But they won't. Like locusts that swoop in, destroy everything in sight and then move on they will leave CA, infest other nearby states and then vote for the same utter bullshit that destroyed the areas they came from. I'm watching southern Nevada slide into shithole status more and more from this right now and it's beyond frustrating.
  • vanusa 5y ago
    They could if the government and NIMBY neighbors would get out of the way. I think you know perfectly well they won't (vote tomorrow to repeal all zoning), so we're already in the territory of wishful thinking. And in any case far outside the realm of "could just do it." SF's housing problems are entirely self-created They are not. There are multiple factors involved. The city has essentially the same housing stock as it did 20 years ago, but it didn't have, at that time, anything like the housing crisis like it has now. I'll leave it to you to guess what some of those intervening factors might be.