[voidfunc]

> I never quite understood how to square that view with the desire to keep housing affordable.

It is easy, there is no absolutely no desire to keep housing "affordable" by anyone that owns property in SF.

This is a problem through the US. Property owners vote and do things that are in their favor while renters and people that are trying to enter the market scream it is too expensive.

[throwaway0a5e]

There are plenty of property owners who want housing to remain dirt cheap so that the kind of people who need dirt cheap housing stick around and the kind of people who don't need dirt cheap housing don't show up and bring their zoning and their bylaws and their opinions with them.

[smabie]

Current renters are part of the problem too: they lobby for rent control. The people who are really fucked are people who want to move to a city and rent or buy.