Saw "San Francisco, which faces a housing shortage, ..." in a newspaper article, as if a housing shortage were a drought and not a policy.
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why would any neighborhood _ever_ vote to add more housing? Literally: what's in it for them?
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Considerations of justice; wanting your kids to have somewhere to move out to; keeps rents low; diversifies housing options.
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Or "San Francisco, whose homeowners consistently vote to maximize their properties' value, and whose renters mostly don't vote."
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To the extent that renters vote, they vote for rent control at the expense of future renters.
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Best I can tell though, YIMBY started here.
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Sad thing a $4000/month neighborhood is not the old 1000/month one, forever, the change is here already
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Also Silicon Valley with even less excuse since less history
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