Ifthere’s one sentiment that crystallizes the resistance against new housing that has kept San Francisco’s western neighborhoods looking more like suburbs than the residential flanks of a modern metropolis, it’s this: “Most of us are going to get pushed out of our houses.”
The speaker who said this was attending a Planning Department open house last month, at the SF County Fair building in Golden Gate Park. City planners had just presented the latest version of a proposal to change SF’s housing laws and encourage taller buildings with more homes in neighborhoods like the low-slung Outer Sunset.