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San Francisco is notoriously the most anti-new-housing city in the country.

Frisco (come at me) rent and housing prices have way more to do with the valuation of the latest startup darling than with much else.

SF (only acceptable abbreviation) is 7x7 miles square surrounded by water on three sides—the only way to grow is up, right after you knock down the 100 yro Victorian homes and historic buildings, and gut the neighborhood charms. This from someone who once paid rent 1300/mo for a two bedroom in Potrero Hill.

Nah, Frisco has a long history of use

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/rappers-poets-activists...

as does 'the City'.

hehe. Frisco seems derisive to me. And The City? All major cities can be called that when in their vicinity (NYC?). But SF? It's right there on the Giant's caps!

What are you talking about? It's clearly Cisco - the bridge is right there in the logo!

SF was founded by a joint effort between Cisco and Salesforce, that's why it's called Cisco and SF, right?

Just turn SOMA into Hong Kong

At the density of Kowloon Walled City SOMA could house 2.2 million!

And we could probably do it comfortably with what we've spent on AI datacenters.

>right after you knock down the 100 yro Victorian homes and historic buildings

BS, there's ~400K housing units in SF, and only ~10k of those would be considered victorian. These units couldn't (And shouldn't!) be destroyed for new housing because they're protected, and that's not what NIMBY's or YIMBY's are arguing about anyway since almost everyone loves victorian homes.

More than half of the city's housing was built after 1940, mostly on the west side, and it's where NIMBYism is at its worst. There's little reason someone or even a developer shouldn't be able to build up there.

> “west side”

Build around Golden Gate Park just like NYC’s Central Park! Great idea.

Ah yes, Golden Gate Park, famously the only option for building new housing on the west side of SF!

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