[claydavisss]

Increasingly, single family detached homes in the interior of SF are owned by the very wealthy who can remain in the city to shape policy over the long term, while renters come and go. So don't expect anyone at City Hall to swing a wrecking ball in the direction of Pac Heights.

The problem has solved itself already - the US is big and empty. There is little reason to stack people twenty stories high in a Zoom economy. So much talk here of policy changes, LVT etc etc...just freaking move!! That's a very trite response but it also is the best one. If anything, the pandemic has taken a wrecking ball to the entire thesis of New Urbanism and dense development...many Bay Area residents have already figured it out, don't be the last to get the memo.

[oblio]

I wouldn't bet against urbanization. There are many advantages to living in a large, busy city and Zoom can only counter some of them.

[wbl]

How is North Dakota doing? Meanwhile Hong Kong and Tokyo escaped relatively unscathed.