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It’s highly unlikely anybody is gonna pay $1,995/month for a 352 sq. ft. converted garage in Gramercy Park, Morningside Park, and other South Los Angeles area neighborhoods.

Nobody is going to put a 600 sf house on a $1.5 million lot. It isn’t the size of the house that costs money in Los Angeles.

I’m not saying change or more density aren’t good, I’m just saying they aren’t necessarily right for San Francisco. Let’s take it slow and try this out in cities where there isn’t as much to lose first and revisit it for San Francisco in say 20 years after we have had a chance to study the results . Los Angeles and San Jose are just two examples of California cities with no character at risk of being destroyed. Start at those sort of cities.

Maybe it’s time we start creating completely new cities in the United States. When’s the last time we founded a new city. Even newer cities like Los Angeles started over 100 years ago. Maybe the best example of something newer is Las Vegas and even Vegas has been around since the 1950’s. If we decided it was time to build a few more new cities we could smartly design and build it out for today’s needs.

This problem is in the cities. It’s not a country wide problem. The building industry reacts to building codes. California wants to fix the housing problem when it is limited to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Why LA balks is they want to ruin the other cities that want to maintain their suburban character. Why should San Marino change when Downtown LA needs more housing? Reasonable housing depends on square footage. That’s how prices are measured. Just build more micro apartment high rises for everyone up and down the income ladder.

Whatever is left that is charming about Los Angeles is being destroyed piece by piece for these hideous, overpriced monstrosities. I hope the Mayor has a plan for the wreckage he has left of this city.

We are in the midst of a generational shift – young people are moving from the suburbs back into city centers. These cities mentioned are older cities with smaller denser roads and are experiencing this migration shift a little later then Los Angeles (LA has better weather and draws from the entire country, these cities tend to draw from the surrounding suburbs ). Every city will eventually become congested if well paying service jobs are available (especially in tech related industries). At least LA was built to the scale of a person driving a car – Philly and Boston were built to the scale of a person walking.

"whereby we all try to move about in the least efficient" In Los Angeles, where I live, a car is far more efficient than public transportation given the size and layout of the city.

Maybe Los Angeles will move their city away from that road. You know, so it’s more convenient for them.

Name some "cheaper areas" that would like to take the poor people from Los Angeles.