Evan J Conrad argues that a 25% year-over-year rent increase, coupled with the absence of a large-scale housing plan, would cost the mayor the next election. Urbanist M. Nolan Gray frames that same 25% rent surge in San Francisco as a crisis—comparable to a natural disaster—that should trigger emergency housing construction rather than continuing business as usual.
Evan J Conrad warns the mayor will lose the next election if rents rise 25% year-over-year and no massive housing plan is executed before then.
if the mayor goes into the next election with 25% YoY rent increases and no massive housing plan executed, he will lose
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 (@mnolangray)
A 25% jump in rents year over year should be a five-alarm fire, the sort of thing that happens after a natural disaster and should motivate a bunch of emergency measures to get housing built ASAP, but it's business as usual in San Francisco these days. That's a huge problem.
— https://nitter.net/mnolangray/status/2083377071640985647#m