Inthe first week of September, David Woo, VP of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council, assured readers of the HANC newsletter that despite what they might have heard, there is no housing crisis in San Francisco.
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.
This is a critical piece of NIMBY gospel: Not only should we not build more homes; if anything, we’ve already got more than we need.