The thing is the people who can afford to buy a house or pay the high rents will push out the people who can&#x27;t, regardless of housing stock.  Someone with money can buy the unit I rent, and, given it&#x27;s private property there is no reason in the world they should not be able to move in --we&#x27;re not at the stage of confiscating property.<p>Traffic throughput is different [unless you are comparing it to the toll express lanes].  Normal highways have no barrier to entry other than the vehicle you need to enter with anyway, so of course people will take whichever way gets you there faster.  If before you had to take the 2-hour bus, or the surface streets which took two hours, but now you can take the freeway which takes an hour, all things being equal you take the freeway... Now, if you had to pay a toll to get on the freeway AND there was also public transit which was cheaper, you might take public transit.<p>The sad thing is politicians on either side ignore economics when it benefits their point of view or it aligns themselves with the ignorance of the people they represent [climate change, fiscal policy, housing, jobs policies, etc] so I&#x27;m under no illusions this report by the state gov&#x27;t[1] will convince city supes.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lao.ca.gov&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Report&#x2F;3345" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lao.ca.gov&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;Report&#x2F;3345</a>