It’s High Time to Slay the Myth of All Those Vacant San Francisco Homes
<p>Inthe first week of September, David Woo, VP of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council, assured readers of the <a href="https://www.hanc-sf.org/upload-new-file/func-startdown/235/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">HANC newsletter</a> that despite what they might have heard, there is no housing crisis in San Francisco.</p>
<p>The crisis is entirely “manufactured,” Woo wrote. His evidence: “There are 40,000 vacant housing units in San Francisco,” enough for every homeless person in SF with tens of thousands to spare.</p>
<p>This is a critical piece of NIMBY gospel: Not only should we <em>not</em> build more homes; if anything, we’ve already got more than we need.</p>
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