The only solution is a two tier housing system in which one tier is social housing owned by the city with reasonable rents while the other is "free market" housing which would include whatever the market would bear.
You wrote: "While I’m at it, let me lob a grenade at the argument against apartment/condo living, namely that people will be stuck renting for life with those types of developments". Do you actually believe that this isn't already the reality for most San Diegans?
I should have been clearer there: the prospect of being a renter for life is held by the NIMBY crowd as a bad thing, a consequence for building not-single-family-home housing.
The only solution is a two tier housing system in which one tier is social housing owned by the city with reasonable rents while the other is "free market" housing which would include whatever the market would bear.
You wrote: "While I’m at it, let me lob a grenade at the argument against apartment/condo living, namely that people will be stuck renting for life with those types of developments". Do you actually believe that this isn't already the reality for most San Diegans?
I should have been clearer there: the prospect of being a renter for life is held by the NIMBY crowd as a bad thing, a consequence for building not-single-family-home housing.