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Comment by jdm2212

2 days ago

You can't solve a shortage with demand subsidies. You need to expand supply. SF has too little housing relative to its population, and has perennially tried throwing money at the nonprofit industrial complex which has (obviously) perennially failed to solve the problem because it doesn't generate new housing units, it just bids up and reshuffles the existing ones (and steals a lot of money in the process).

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robocat  1 day ago

> SF has too little housing relative to its population

The population that's already living in those houses?

Note that "native-born Californians are ~37% of San Francisco County. That percentage has remained relatively flat over recent decades"

  natural population change was positive in San Francisco County, CA, with births exceeding deaths by 574

https://usafacts.org/answers/is-the-population-growing-or-sh...