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A comment on San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city.

Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by samstave on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:22PM (#17567790)
when you talk about high density housing, the only people who then own land are billion dollar investment funds with robotic inhuman desire to maximize per square foot profit because fuck you thats why.

sure, we need more housing - but it also perpetuates another set of problem factors by having such.

as far as building and ciy planning, id look at singapore and other high density asian ities for lessons. heck, we cant even have good quality transportation. if you think bart and muni are good services, then you havent been to places like singapore, hong kong, tokyo or beijing.

singapore digs down for every floor it puts up.

sf will never solve true density problems. period.

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Re:San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartmen... by Wohlf on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:51PM (#17568142)
Real estate is not limited to land, plenty of people own property in large cities with condos and coops. Even if the building is owned by a business homeowners in multi-family buildings have the same protections as those in single-family.
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