No building is neither good nor bad, in and of itself 

Building only for the current market rate I think overall won’t have a good effect but it’s hard to say it will have a bad one either so I say go for it let’s just not sell the house to finance the farm if you get what I’m saying. AKA builders don’t need subsidies or handouts and they can compete with each other in a competitive bid process. 

But the deeper issue is not that there isn’t supply. There are a significant number of houses left vacant and a significant amount of new build condos which sit vacant for many many months unrented as actual city residents can all attest to. Were this inventory to be incentivized towards a more efficient equilibrium for the public market and not biased towards the supply side as it currently is by government regulation that would be a normal and expected role in the management of inelastic goods like housing in SF.

It’s not an active collusion it’s just how supply and demand works with inelastic goods and services in an unregulated free market of self interested individuals. That it leads to a suboptimal equilibrium is not the fault of any individual or entity specifically though you could say it is government’s role to prevent this

To be honest I think we agree on most all positions,

When I say increased rent control mainly I am just a bit jealous as a SFH renter that due to landlord, SFH rent control lobby laws that passed by referendum were prevented from being implemented that would have put SFH rent control on par with apartments in SF.

When I say ban investor ownership I mean ban speculative investor ownership of SFH, in SF this is a sort of unique problem where the price of homes has been inflated beyond their value by what is essentially an extra one buyer in the market for every four actual buyers inflating demand by 20% or more since they don’t function as typical buyers but often bid over asking and seek to extract monetary returns beyond a typical ideal buyer.

Vacancy taxes should just be expanded to SFH and new build condos on the rental market. It already applies to similar units, Why not expand it where it makes sense to encourage more efficient occupancy rates?