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For decades, San Francisco hasn't been building enough new units to house even just the children of natives[1], to say nothing of those like you and I who were born elsewhere and dreamed of moving here.

The people who "gave the poorest folks nowhere to go" were the ones who voted to prohibit the construction of anything but single-family houses[2] in 76% of the city[3].

[1] https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Epi/Birth-Data-Summa...

[2] https://sbuss.substack.com/p/when-did-things-go-wrong-in-san....

[3] https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/




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