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Here is the city's 2015 housing inventory: http://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/2015_Hous...

It has more specific numbers, like in 2015, the city built 3,000 units and tore down 25. 15 of those were single family houses, which is not a category of housing that is affordable by any measure in SF in 2015. Vastly more affordable units are lost in SF through merger, Owner Move In evictions or just the previous tenant moving out and the new tenant being charged more than by demolition.

It very much confuses the housing debate to believe or claim that every time a new apartment building goes up, it means by default that dozens of low income people were kicked out to make that happen. That is just not true.

You can't demolish 100 unit SRO in the mission, rightly so, without a development agreement that would relocate the current SRO tenants into a new building without interruption.

There's no reason to have this kind of thing be an example scenario because that's not how housing gets built. SF isn't tearing down 100 unit SROs, they're tearing down one story commercial.

The question here is about housing demolished in order to build new housing.

Merged units are not in this category. Merged units are when someone buys a duplex (or bigger) and removes all but one of the kitchens in the building and thereby makes one big house out of what used to be a house that was split into 2-4 apartments. That is not an example of housing being demolished in order to build new housing.

Yes, exogenous demand is the central question in the housing debate.

That's one of the uses of a model, to think about one aspect of a process at a time.

There is no reason to assume that building new housing requires tearing down affordable units. That's the point of using the word "adding".

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