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by yermom 3149 days ago
but developers want to build expensive housing unless they are incentivized otherwise. the margins are better that way. that's what the market gets you.
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And when they do the value of existing housing is reduced as it must compete with that new luxury housing.

People who want to live in SF and have $10m to spend are going to live here. If you won’t let developers build luxury condos for them they’ll just buy a Victorian, Ellis-Act the tenants out, and remodel it back into a single-family home. There is literally nothing you can do to stop it.