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		refurb on March 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Wh... The answer for a city like San Francisco is all the available land was built on 70 years ago (with a few exceptions).

TulliusCicero on March 1, 2021 [–]

Yeah, but SF also still mandates low densities in most of its neighborhoods: https://sfplanning.org/resource/zoning-height-and-bulk-distr...

It could change that to help make housing more affordable, and chooses not to.

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