So true - you just hear different rhetoric, based on the person’s political identity, as to why no more housing is needed (or why it’s not right for this particular location, etc).

Working on housing in SF has made me realize that the most bewitching siren song is one that claims a large, complex problem (like lack of housing) has a distant villain or easy solution that requires no inconvenience to you to address. This is a classic example of the genre!

Reading the comments on any story about housing is a great way to understand how we got a housing shortage.

I’ve used 2.5 vacation days this year to attend hearings expressly to counter wealthy Pacific Heights NIMBYs mad about their neighborhood being upzoned. They like to refer to it as urban renewal.

He’s the most effective legislator in the state - very smart, very persistent, knows how to build and use power, not afraid of MAGA. Would be a worthy successor to Pelosi.

Currently on display at public comment in SF: family zoning will cause the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods, but also per the city economist nothing will happen. Checkmate!

Also, the most drastic change made to the Richmond was downzoning it in 1978.

Had we not done that we would not be on the crippling housing shortage we are in today. We got exactly what we planned for.

This isn’t drastic, it’s a return to what once was

Townhouses are a really great housing format that serve the younger and older ends of the market well - and they’re next to nonexistent in places like SF. Would love to see that change.

It really is stark how much most people who oppose Family Zoning (and really many changes) have this idea that San Francisco is doomed if we do anything, and yet every year it’s just gotten harder and harder to live here

It was Micah Williams!

Wow, these are foolish and would be so counterproductive - a perfect homage to the poor decision-making that got us into this mess.