The most remarkable element of the report by the city economist on the mayor’s Rich Family Zoning Plan is not what most of the news media have reported: That the zoning changes won’t lead to anywhere near the amount of housing the state wants to see.

The far more important conclusion is that, even if the city allows developers to build all they want everywhere they want, it won’t bring housing prices down.

That directly contradicts the central thesis of the Yimby agenda.

We are already hearing from Yimby activists that the city needs to do even more to “limit obstacles” to new market-rate housing:

Jane Natoli, San Francisco organizing director for YIMBY Action, said that while the group supports the Family Zoning Plan, it has tracked the removal of provisions that could have allowed fo

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