Doug

It's fine and good to advocate for a healthy environment and to be concerned about conservation and helping air quality and helping make sure that disadvantaged communities are served and that we can support minority-owned businesses. These are great things. But when you add so many of these processes and so many of these restrictions and so many goals that you're trying to do on every project,

It's fine and good to advocate for a healthy environment and to be concerned about conservation and helping air quality and helping make sure that disadvantaged communities are served and that we can support minority-owned businesses. These are great things. But when you add so many of these processes and so many of these restrictions and so many goals that you're trying to do on every project,

It's fine and good to advocate for a healthy environment and to be concerned about conservation and helping air quality and helping make sure that disadvantaged communities are served and that we can support minority-owned businesses. These are great things. But when you add so many of these processes and so many of these restrictions and so many goals that you're trying to do on every project,

then nothing happens and everybody suffers much more.

then nothing happens and everybody suffers much more.

then nothing happens and everybody suffers much more.

It's not worth jumping into it, but there's this video by reason TV called the insane battle to sabotage a new apartment building in San Francisco, which is just encapsulates in the most infuriating, unbelievable way.

It's not worth jumping into it, but there's this video by reason TV called the insane battle to sabotage a new apartment building in San Francisco, which is just encapsulates in the most infuriating, unbelievable way.

It's not worth jumping into it, but there's this video by reason TV called the insane battle to sabotage a new apartment building in San Francisco, which is just encapsulates in the most infuriating, unbelievable way.

No, there's plenty like this. This is a guy who wanted to turn his laundromat in the mission into a big apartment structure and create lots of housing. And how every single part of the city basically did everything they could to stop this.

No, there's plenty like this. This is a guy who wanted to turn his laundromat in the mission into a big apartment structure and create lots of housing. And how every single part of the city basically did everything they could to stop this.

No, there's plenty like this. This is a guy who wanted to turn his laundromat in the mission into a big apartment structure and create lots of housing. And how every single part of the city basically did everything they could to stop this.

He spent like $4 million going through litigation before anything got built because there's shade on a playground for an hour a day that already has a lot of shade on it, by the way. And in the mission, you're going to gentrify this area even though there's affordable housing in the project. And the neighbors, I mean, it just goes on and on.

He spent like $4 million going through litigation before anything got built because there's shade on a playground for an hour a day that already has a lot of shade on it, by the way. And in the mission, you're going to gentrify this area even though there's affordable housing in the project. And the neighbors, I mean, it just goes on and on.

He spent like $4 million going through litigation before anything got built because there's shade on a playground for an hour a day that already has a lot of shade on it, by the way. And in the mission, you're going to gentrify this area even though there's affordable housing in the project. And the neighbors, I mean, it just goes on and on.

It is truly unbelievable to watch this and go, San Francisco, one of the most progressive cities in the country, who are constantly espousing how much they care about the working class and minorities, have done everything they can to a truly baffling degree to stop anything from being built.

It is truly unbelievable to watch this and go, San Francisco, one of the most progressive cities in the country, who are constantly espousing how much they care about the working class and minorities, have done everything they can to a truly baffling degree to stop anything from being built.

It is truly unbelievable to watch this and go, San Francisco, one of the most progressive cities in the country, who are constantly espousing how much they care about the working class and minorities, have done everything they can to a truly baffling degree to stop anything from being built.

So here's what I would say, right? If your response to this is, this is why we need socialized housing. That is not solving the problem because the problem is the government can't build anything, right? Even if there's two, you know, thoughts here, one, you could like really expand the free market, make it way easier for private developers to build.

So here's what I would say, right? If your response to this is, this is why we need socialized housing. That is not solving the problem because the problem is the government can't build anything, right? Even if there's two, you know, thoughts here, one, you could like really expand the free market, make it way easier for private developers to build.