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100%. It's at least nice to see places realize that "supply and demand" are real for housing, but at the end of the day if you're in a tourist oriented area, you need tourist housing too. Build some more hotels, build a lot more housing for residents. Build SRO's, shrink lot sizes and fix condo liability laws for ownership opportunities, legalize small 4/6/8plexes everywhere. Remove parking minimums. There are a lot of levers to pull...

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So basically allow shitty dwellings to be thrown together for the 'servant classes', while making sure the itinerant wealthy have the pick of the nicer places.

That's not what I wrote. New housing tends to be nicer than older housing, and right now the option for people working in these place is often to commute in over long distances or basically 'hot bunk' in some cramped housing. Things are bad right now and more housing, especially housing dedicated to people living and working in an area, would help some people. At least it's an option they have rather than just getting priced out completely.

I'm all for 'right-sized' housing, of good quality, and without nonsense like parking minimums - but you did mention SROs (fine for students, but otherwise far from a good way to live).

The easiest way to fix housing right now is to ban STRs. The supply available to long term renters / home buyers would increase dramatically, quite literally over night.

I mentioned a lot of different things. SRO's are a good fit for some people. Not for others.

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