It's your girlfriend telling you this, so there are a lot of ways to win that argument and harm your interests. If it were a stock San Franciscan, you'd be wel

It's your girlfriend telling you this, so there are a lot of ways to win that argument and harm your interests. If it were a stock San Franciscan, you'd be well advised to open with something like "Do you think immigrants should be allowed in SF?" "Me, too! I think everyone should have the opportunity to live in SF, because SF is awesome. Sadly, not all SFians agree with us -- they'd prefer to put a maximum quota on the number of people who get to live here. The mechanism for this is our building process, which they exert de-facto control over. It's like building a wall around the city made up of the houses they won't allow to be built. The existence of the cap on housing guarantees anyone over the SF Resident Cap gets screwed. Sometimes they're immigrants; sometimes they're tech people; sometimes they're immigrant tech people. I don't care who is getting screwed, because no one should be without a house. That's why I support building more housing."