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The problem is that the city government artificially limits supply through zoning.

If the zoning were changed, the market could easily supply a lot more housing, perhaps looking like this: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=park+slope+brooklyn&ll=40... or this: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=barcelona&ll=41.389334,2....

Instead of limiting things to this: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=san+francisco&hl=en&l...

The NYC & Barcelona examples can hold 5 or more families in the space that one takes up in the SF example. Both are very desirable places to live.



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