Generalizations like this miss the important successes along the way. In the early 90s San Francisco permitted a particular form of loft development that creat

Generalizations like this miss the important successes along the way. In the early 90s San Francisco permitted a particular form of loft development that created a large number of housing units before it was shut down. Then when Jerry Brown was mayor of Oakland his promise to build ten thousand new housing units was so successful that there was a period when the price of low end housing got pushed down if only briefly. When Mountain View started to grow robustly the commercial corridor was upzoned for larger buildings and adjacent parking garages were built. There are various other successes and each demonstrates a way out of the current extreme shortage of housing.