> If your community prices out certain essential services then those providing the service will leave, raising the price of that service, thereby ensuring that those that stay (or come back after the price changes) can make a living, can have a wage that allows them to pay for housing in the city.

Or, more likely, the people providing those services will not actually be paid enough to live in the community, but instead forced endure grueling commutes and other practices that lower their quality of life if they want to remain employed.

https://www.sfgate.com/traffic/article/Bay-Area-commute-San-...

https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/8/17097154/affordable-housing-...