You could use expensive land much more efficiently if you could build smaller, taller, and worse housing.
SF has both banned new SROs (flophouses) and made it illegal to tear down the old ones.
SF has both banned new SROs (flophouses) and made it illegal to tear down the old ones.
If we must live in a world where no one gives a fuck about the poor I honestly am not so sure they should be denied at least their slum house rather than freezing to death behind a dumpster.