YIMBY Action

Then maybe don't comment as if you know otherwise. If you strictly criticized the online discourse you saw, it'd be obvious that you're wasting your time. I'm not going to pretend I get what value you see in "local control" but I've been in Virginia enough to be skeptical.

I try to do my best to only respond to the points people are making in front of me. Funny how lots of folks are sitting here saying, "hey nobody's saying X" while other people are in the same thread literally tweeting X at me. I have gone to extreme pains to qualify my comments.

What I can tell you is that in a lot of the US as well as around the world, there is a lot of new "luxury" housing getting built (to the cheers of YIMBYs), but despite sometimes thousands of units sitting empty, housing prices continue to go up.

A lot of "luxury" housing is the only construction type that is legal to build, and I've done research to document this in my hellish corner of the world. While vacancy data is more nebulous, I trust you are also looking into cheaper construction like mid-rise wood frame or CLT.

It's authentically a gigantic problem that new construction represents the high end of the market. The challenge is to counteract this through our policy (the first step realizing that this outcome is generated by more than developer greed)

I swear I’ve been told by YIMBYs (and seen self-described YIMBYs tell others) that new construction of course will house the middle/upper class, that this is how a functioning housing market works

I don't know any actual human being who really believes in filtering and nothing else, I'd be curious to know who this is

To be clear, there are genuinely some diehard yimbys who are pretty dumb, almost exclusively in SF, a city full of dumb people who think too highly of themselves. But SF is not the whole world, thank god.