The whole dogpatch to India Basin and hunters point areas could be upzoned massively to accommodate a few hundred thousand new residents very easily. Lay down a good street grid, have a plan to eventually put the third street light rail underground or overhead to give massive transit capacity and have a complete free for all of new high rise (20+ stories) apartments there. You could do this without touching any zoning anywhere else in the city. Yet we can’t even do this. Similar “win-win” options exist all over the Bay Area that don’t get done, and you begin to realize the real reason is preserving property values. All new housing is bad. Thus there is no negotiation with existing vested interests. They’ll run the city into the ground until the state forces their hand in some way.

They should tear down the Fed Mint building behind that Safeway and turn it into housing. I don't even believe that branch does anything other than print proofs. A waste of space, but it's not happening during this presidency for sure.