San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Exposes Failures of Overreach and Misguided Policy

San Francisco, a city renowned for its vibrant culture and historic neighborhoods, now faces a stark reality: decades of bureaucratic overreach and misguided policies have pushed affordable housing out of reach for its own residents. Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recent push to stampede through denser zoning may seem like a solution on paper, but it raises serious questions about who truly benefits—and at what cost.Lurie aims to cram thousands of new units into single-family neighborhoods and cherished historic districts like Haight-Ashbury, threatening the very character that makes San Francisco unique. While he claims this will ease the affordability crisis, critics argue...