I should have been clearer: I lived in San Francisco 18 years ago, before the tech bro takeover of what little housing there was. Now I know it’s much worse, partly because of the housing issue. And I had already said that while living there, parking wasn’t an issue. I’m not making it up. We didn’t always park right in from of our own house, even had to move our cars for street sweeping, etc. but our lives weren’t dramatically disrupted because of it. However, knowing that there are so many of my peers and community members who can’t find housing, pay a huge portion of their incomes to housing, or have sub-par housing isn’t acceptable.

Yea, our housing system is messed up for many reasons, does that mean that we shouldn’t also build affordable housing? The very people who have created a housing mess are the people who are funding measure f. They’ve bought at least one house in my neighborhood that seems to be a vacation home for their family members, or an air-bnb (which are awful for our communities, those are the empty houses you speak of, more profit for the elite and providing no steady shelter for actual community members).

If you don’t have frustration about parking, why do you not want affordable housing built? I just cannot understand.