Comment by Aunche

What YIMBY deregulation do you view as problematic? YIMBYs aren't calling for more billionaire row towers and multifamily to single family townhouse conversions. They are calling for more apartment complexes, ADUs, and other utilitarian forms of housing.

New housing developments only gets branded as "luxury" because that's the way that housing is priced right now. It costs the city of San Francisco over $1 million to build a single affordable housing unit. Blindly throwing more money at the problem doesn't help. SF is spending $846 million on housing, over $1000 per resident. Despite this, homelessness is actually increasing. Increasing funding is something that should be prioritized after you made development as frictionless as possible. If public housing is cheaper and faster to build, more voters would be willing to support funding it.

I gave SF a lot of shit, but to be clear, they're the least problematic city in the Bay Area, as they at least allow some denser development.