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Re:Does Adding Expensive Housing Help the Little Guy? by akanet on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:48PM (#15362180)
You've just linked a chart that you claim shows "lots" of housing demolished or merged over the last five years, but these numbers are tiny, representing far less than a single percent of the city's housing stock.

The vast majority of new housing construction happens without the removal of any previous housing unit.

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Re:Does Adding Expensive Housing Help the Little Guy? by irq11 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @10:50PM (#15362408)
You can’t evaluate it as a percentage of all housing. By that standard, even new construction is a “tiny” percentage of the whole.

SF doesn’t have much infill development left. That’s the point. Arguing about what people did in the past isn’t relevant today.

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