Housing Spock It sure does! Thank California's Prop 13 for artificially capping property taxes and hampering the state from being able to enact a key control over speculators.
Then throw in environmental factors, like the increased risk of wildfire thanks to incautious overbuilding

Housing Spock Just read this before you say anything even stupider than you're saying now, please yesmagazine.org/environment/20…

Show Your Work Buddy, the point is that we should be building lots of infill housing *here*, not letting cities like San Francisco block housing and push it out to the outer exurbs.

Housing Spock Where is '*here*' exactly?

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Housing Spock Found it!
Why don't we start by building social housing over that giant golf course where so many landlords are laughing, just out of frame? Seems like a much easier way to add housing than losing existing homes to private renovations which are not guaranteed to complete?

Show Your Work Just get rid of height limits and let people build and sell as much housing as they want on whatever land that they own. The government can build social housing, too.

Housing Spock So we need to keep 163 acres of golf course devoid of housing and end height limits in an active earthquake zone? The city owns the golf course, why not just raze it and build affordable housing to compete with all that private stock?

Show Your Work We need a scalable solution to the housing shortage that results in lots of housing being built in places of high demand. Getting rid of supply constraints like height limits and discretionary approvals and having form-based codes with ministerial approvals accomplishes this.

Housing Spock What happens if individual lot owners don't build housing in places of high demand, or if they start building but stop because of market conditions?

Show Your Work People are free to decide what they want to do with their own land. People also sell their homes all the time. Many of those buyers will then choose to redevelop.