There are solutions other than SB 827

Make no mistake about it. Sen. Wiener is slowly removing the local control of zoning and development from the cities to the state. This in turn rendering General Plans created by the cities and their citizens useless! Just look at his financial supporters in his senate run and the bills he has passed already. He along with YIMBY, who is now the legal arm for their developers is slowly eroding the democratic and local process for controlling development. So now the developers and state will determine what is built in your city. How fun is that?

Am dumbfounded that Sen. Wiener makes no attempt to address the unbridled growth in office space. He only appears interested in addressing the supply side of housing and not the demand side where many of us would prefer to see more focus.

How about we start with getting government out of housing. Calling this situation a crisis is the first mistake. The market cycles of demand and supply should not be considered a crisis or something that needs to be fixed by artificial means.
People, we are not having a crisis, we just have a phenomenon where everyone in the world seems to want to live here. When government realizes it is part of the problem and gets itself out of the way, people struggling to find housing might get some relief. Inconveniencing people who have lived here for decades by forcing them to pay for someone else's affordable housing or stacking housing on top on each other and creating gridlock is not the answers long time residents want to hear, nor is it their problem to solve. So dump the word crisis and realize that not everyone who wants to live here can. The best way to determine that is the private market and not government intervention. Only in this area can a red hot real estate market be considered a crisis.