We Put Two People Who Disagree About Housing in a Room and Nobody Died

Nadia Rahman with YIMBY Action and Joseph Smooke with the Race and Equity in All Planning Coalition both agree it costs far too much to live in San Francisco and that this lack of affordability has serious consequences for the city’s diversity and equity. What they don’t see eye to eye on is the role of the market in influencing housing affordability. But when we all sat down to talk, it turned out they agree on the urgency of building affordable housing and creating a clear and detailed plan to produce it, while frontloading community input to minimize repetitive and exhausting battles about individual projects. So what would they say we should do about it? | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Fixing Our City is part of the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFNext Project Got a tip, question, comment? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices