Talk:San Francisco housing shortage

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 * In November 2015, San Francisco voters rejected two ballot propositions aimed at addressing the crisis. The first, Proposition F, would have enacted a number of restrictions on Airbnb rentals within the city. The second, Proposition I or the "Mission Moratorium", would have blocked all housing development in San Francisco's Mission District for 18 months, except for developments in which every apartment was subsidized at a below-market rate.

The logic in that sentence is beyond twisted. And there's a source to back it up, even! The moratorium was not a "ballot proposition aimed at addressing the crisis"; one cannot address a housing crisis by banning new construction. The cited source is incredibly not neutral in it's stance: opponents to the moratorium argued that voting it down was the better option for the housing crisis: the argument was that you address a housing crisis by adding new construction, and a moratorium is exactly opposite of what needed to be done. (That is, both sides thought their position beneficial to the housing crisis.)

—Deathanatos (talk) 09:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)


 * @ Thanks for pointing this out!!  I agree, the statement should be re-written in my opinion.  The source does mention the opinion of economists, which could be used to balance this.  Maybe a statement like: "Supporters claimed that Prop would help reduce the crisis, while economists stated:X"...or more sources and more balanced statement....


 * If you'd like to rewrite, please go ahead....if not, I'll try to rewrite that in the next couple of days....


 * FYI, no one needs permission to change articles, so anytime you find problems like this, you are welcome and encouraged to change them. (Unless you don't want to...)  :-)  WP:Be_bold


 * Also, the last section, Added by user Jam019 clearly has problems.....it appears that that person is a student in a class where improving a wiki article was an assignment....


 * Avatar317 (talk) 19:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)Avatar317

2000 not SF's first housing shortage
San Francisco had a severe housing shortage during and after World War II. This article leans to the present. It ought to have some background history. It verges on a POV screed. Chisme (talk) 19:42, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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