Comment by ericd
17 hours ago
They’re not necessarily at odds. Manhattan has something like 75x the population density per mile. You could rewild 4/5 of the the SF Bay Area while also building 10x the housing stock under that development pattern. Single family homes are just an extremely expensive and ecologically destructive way to live. They require a ton of infrastructure per person.
Unfortunately, I think that housing unaffordability is just a desired feature - people who live there don’t want to live near people who couldn’t afford to live there. It’s much more segregated than many other parts of the country I’ve lived in.
Unlike the East Coast, we have earthquakes and more NIMBYs
Tokyo has plenty of earthquakes, it's not a showstopper. NIMBYs, yeah, they came out in force when height limits were discussed in San Mateo. It was always pretty annoying how progressive SF Bay residents claim to be vs. how progressive they act.