San Francisco also has an artificial housing shortage caused by enforced height-limits for new buildings. Furthermore there's a significant amount of "affordab

San Francisco also has an artificial housing shortage caused by enforced height-limits for new buildings. Furthermore there's a significant amount of "affordable housing" and public projects sitting on huge multi-billion dollar lots. All that contributes to artificially high prices for everyone else. Most of San Francisco's woes directly result from policy-makers who don't understand basic Economics.