The point about people in rent controlled apartments having very little incentive to favor increased density is a different one than I&#x27;ve heard, and a telling one. If between owners and rent-controlled apartments you have a large voting majority, you end up with a large voting majority that has no interest in making the city more welcoming to newcomers.<p>People often talk about middle class people being driven out of SF, I think it&#x27;s actually dangerous that even people making well above average wages have trouble affording housing alone. Many tech workers I know earn a decent living but having an apartment to themselves is simply unaffordable.<p>Yes, yes #richpeopleproblems, and of course we should worry about people further down the income scale, but it&#x27;s indicative of just how pathological the situation has become that even people who are well off can&#x27;t afford the city comfortably.