Doug

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.

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.

And I think there's a lot of evidence that that works.

And I think there's a lot of evidence that that works.

And I think there's a lot of evidence that that works.

With the guy in San Francisco, it's, okay, if you have to spend four to five million dollars, which, by the way, could build a building, if you need to spend that much just to get the approval to build a thing, the only people who can afford to go through all that process and still build something at the end are big luxury apartments.

With the guy in San Francisco, it's, okay, if you have to spend four to five million dollars, which, by the way, could build a building, if you need to spend that much just to get the approval to build a thing, the only people who can afford to go through all that process and still build something at the end are big luxury apartments.

With the guy in San Francisco, it's, okay, if you have to spend four to five million dollars, which, by the way, could build a building, if you need to spend that much just to get the approval to build a thing, the only people who can afford to go through all that process and still build something at the end are big luxury apartments.

So the very people, the very progressives who are stopping all this and saying, no, you can't do this, it's not affordable enough, by putting all these processes in place are preventing anything from being built and everybody suffers. And

So the very people, the very progressives who are stopping all this and saying, no, you can't do this, it's not affordable enough, by putting all these processes in place are preventing anything from being built and everybody suffers. And

So the very people, the very progressives who are stopping all this and saying, no, you can't do this, it's not affordable enough, by putting all these processes in place are preventing anything from being built and everybody suffers. And

I mean, this will go to like my my the overall thing that I was really taken away from the book, which represents the frustration I have felt watching politics in San Francisco with friends of mine, which is that there's this he talks. He says everything bagel approach in the book. So the idea was like, you're trying to make everybody happy and get everybody on board.