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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
San Francisco doesn't need to get rid of low density zoning where it currently exists. The blockage on fairly dense new housing has not been due to zoning but to anti-development pressure groups able to use the Byzantine planningprocess to block development that is consistent with existing zoning.
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Let me be that guy:
There has ever-so-subtly been an unholy alliance that has formed between your traditional NIMBYs and anti-capitalist/anti-developer/anti-wealth advocacy groups/far left orgs who see housing production through a strictly ideological lens. Speaking from a NYC perspective, many housing/community organisations, even if they don't say it openly, in their hearts are ideologically against new private housing development. Class resentment often derails mixed income/inclusionary development. This is something that eventually will need to be called out if there is going to be any way forward on this issue.