San Francisco publishes its Housing Development Pipeline here https://sfplanning.org/project/pipeline-report#current-dashb...
They may not be adding capacity at a sufficient rate, but they have tens of thousands of units in the pipeline in every quarter.
[1] https://economics21.org/bay-area-the-land-of-many-jobs-and-t...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage
I don’t understand why so many HN commenters seem to think it could magically become a dense metropolis like Manhattan or Chicago.
Even in the Gold Rush in the 1800s SF was unscalable the rent was unaffordable. It was always a high crime city. Just read about the history of the barbary coast.
Everybody who comes here purely for money wants this city to be something it just isn’t.
It’s 2021 and Covid-19 has shown that remote work is viable.
Back in the day large tech companies like Sun, Peoplesoft and Cisco built offices all over the bay so that people had the option to work at facilities close to their home.
SF wasn’t even a significant tech destination before 2007.
My wife and I are actually moving to Barcelona when Covid is over, under the Non-Lucrative residency permit. If you think San Franciscans have a Nimby attitude and hate outsiders then you should go visit Barcelona.
“Unremarkabe single family housing”. So what, you want to take peoples’ housing via eminent domain and build more of the hideously dugly condo boxes they’ve stuffed all over SOMA and the Missiom?
I happen to love my unremarkable home in the Sunset in which my family has lived for 55 years.
It’s quite rude to refer to housing for people as “droid housing.” What makes you any better than them?
“Droid housing” is san francisco slang for the soulless eyesore boxes containing cramped, slapshodnfaux “lofts”, usually painted a bluish slate grey or salmon pink on the outside, entirely devoid of character or quality.
Thankfully San Francisco’s direct democracy works well to keep this city small. There are many soulless sprawling cities which are seismically stable, devoid of character, flat and inhabited by people who don’t care enough to resist.
You seriously think San Francisco would be livable at 51,000 pe m^2? It would literally cost $500bn in infrastructure investment to make that possible just inside the city.
101 and 280 would need to be 15 lames wide each, bulldozing 1/8 of the peninsula. We would need a half a dozen new transbay bridges and tunnels.
SFO would probably need another couple of runways and terminals.
You’re talking trillions of dollars in investment because tech companies prefer open office spaces to Zoom.
Why would we need more freeways if amenities are local? In fact, we could probably demolish freeways if more people who worked in San Francisco could afford to live here.
People don’t disappear if you don’t have housing for them. Why is building infrastructure in Phoenix preferable to growing it here? There are returns to scale with all of this. OAK is underutilized as an airport as well.
Have you considered that San Francisco is a pleasant place to live, and people want to live here independently of their employment situation? Prices were high before technology employment.