>I should add that our short term market-based approach to economic activity fails to produce appropriate housing outcomes
>Fixing housing could be cheaper than them using the ER or paying for their prison space, and it would also make the streets of San Francisco smell a LOOOT better (and BART)
It's extremely unfair to blame "market based solutions" for failing to fix SF housing problems when it's pretty clear the largest hurdle is NIMBYism politically blocking new housing developments.
>Fixing housing could be cheaper than them using the ER or paying for their prison space, and it would also make the streets of San Francisco smell a LOOOT better (and BART)
It's extremely unfair to blame "market based solutions" for failing to fix SF housing problems when it's pretty clear the largest hurdle is NIMBYism politically blocking new housing developments.
For example here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-housing-clash-yim...
The locals won't even LET other people build new housing. They definitely aren't going to start footing the bill and building the housing themselves