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> The people who are complaining about this are not the same people who are restricting housing access.

The majority of them think that YIMBY is useless or counterproductive because only luxury apartments are being built. There have even been protests against this [1]. The main problem is that most housing advocacy is focused on taxing tech workers and using that to subsidize rents, which of course does nothing for housing costs, but does help landlords.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/8/7/20759029/excelsior-protest-65...




When building is made a luxury, only luxuries will be built. Quelle surprise! And this is supposed to be an argument against YIMBY?




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