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"This is the city where it can take 87 permits, 1,000 days of meetings and $500,000 in fees to build residential housing projects. This is the city — the only one in the state — that allows housing permits to be appealed even after projects are entitled. This is the city where it costs an estimated $100,000 to build one tiny home for the homeless — up to 10 times more than in other Bay Area cities — and almost $1.2 million to build a single unit of affordable housing. This is the city that at one point celebrated plans to build a single public toilet for $1.7 million."

"1,000 days of meetings" sounds like the ultimate office horror movie.



The author follows up with measures the mayor is taking to fight this.


Which is worthless unless the measures go though, there are no "points for trying at this scale"

Right now San Francisco is not "too big to fail", but rather "too bloated to save".


It's the city's own policy. How could the mayor 'fight' it?




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