The logic behind advocating for housing in areas that are already developed is that it prevents sprawl. When you accommodate newcomers buy building out instead of gradually densifying existing urbanized areas, you risk winding up like Atlanta or Los Angeles. Think of how awful the morning traffic in the Bay Area is…

I don’t know? I thought you were trying to make the point that San Francisco is already overcrowded, and therefore shouldn’t be adding more housing. (Please correct me if I was wrong though). My counterpoint to that was that some other cities widely considered to be desirable have even higher concentrations of people,…

I can’t speak for starkruzr, but it probably has to do with the fact that San Francisco is not very crowded at all. San Francisco has about 18,000 people/sq mi, while Brooklyn has about 37,000, and Paris has 55,000. If Paris can fit that many people and still be considered one of the most beautiful and romantic cities…

If you check the sfyimby website here, you can see that Palo Alto Forward is one of the member YIMBY groups. There is also Redwood City Forward, Belmont Forward, Balanced Mountain View, San Jose YIMBY, and Friends of Caltrain. Sure, some of these groups are more active than others. Also, Friends of Caltrain is…