Our view: City-by-city NIMBYism isn’t the answer to Peninsula housing crisis


Officials in cities around the Bay Area often share a great sense of responsibility when it comes to housing: That is to say, many of them greatly share a sense that housing should be somebody else’s responsibility.

Even as the Bay Area undershoots its housing needs year after year, these officials maintain their conviction that the best place for new housing remains nowhere near them or their constituents. In this view, the region’s housing crisis remains somebody else’s problem, to be solved…

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