Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis

Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by verg on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:22PM (#11271390)

SF is half as dense as Brooklyn. The major supply constraint is not geographic, its land use regulation.

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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by DrScump on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:43PM (#11271438)

Brooklyn is flat, and almost all of it is safely improvable, unlike SF.

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Re:Blame Zoning, Not Tech, for San Francisco's Housing Crisis by verg on Saturday March 12, 2016 @12:10AM (#11271499)

1. What do you mean by safely improvable?

2. Hong Kong, one of the densest cities in the world, is built on land much steeper than SF.

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