Coming from San Francisco, but not living there right now, I continue to be dismayed about the city government. They're about average for a local government in

Coming from San Francisco, but not living there right now, I continue to be dismayed about the city government. They're about average for a local government in most respects, very good in some, and abysmal in a couple of important ways. The one that I see most often lately is about the most basic fundamentals of economics. The city, very broadly, would like to see the price of housing flat or falling - "affordable." Leaving aside the many possible negative side effects, the only way to get to a falling cost of housing is for less of it to be demanded or more of it to be supplied. The city government can't much affect the former, and has resolutely, bullheadedly, stubbornly refused to improve the latter. It's disastrous. It is is fine and worthy to say - hey let's keep the character of our neighborhoods. Great! But in pursuit of that, they've basically given existing residents a veto on anything new, nearly down to the single-block level in some cases. There are many aspects of the current issues with San Francisco. One aspect that is fully under San Francisco's control is, "shall we build more housing or not?" - and the city government is working as hard as possible to make the situation worse in that aspect. Drives me to tears.