&gt; <i>Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere.</i><p>Which increases infrastructure demands, which increases labor requirements, which increases housing demands ...<p>&gt; <i>I don&#x27;t understand how anyone can say with a straight face that adding more housing exacerbates the problem of not having enough housing.</i><p>Why is it so hard to understand that ecosystems have equilibriums, and that changing one variable never occurs in isolation, and doesn&#x27;t magically maintain a balanced system?<p>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s infinite demand, and if you add ten million houses then eleven million people will instantly move to San Francisco. You don&#x27;t say that giving a starving man food will only make his problems worse.</i><p>There&#x27;s also not infinite supply. Not of resources, not of land, not of infrastructure.<p>It&#x27;s not like you can add &quot;ten million houses&quot; and expect that you&#x27;ll somehow solve affordability in isolation.<p>That&#x27;s just naive 5th grade economics.<p>&gt; <i>Just curious, do you own real estate in San Francisco?</i><p>No, I moved away from San Francisco, and bought something elsewhere.<p>If I owned real estate in San Francisco -- and didn&#x27;t care about quality of life -- density would be <i>good</i> for my pocket book.