I'll tell you how the current approach of urban leftists opposing market rate housing is going to turn out: everything you said about my future, but faster and worse. And when it's all over and the dust has settled, the evictions and the displacement will have been more total and more complete.

Single family exclusive zoning creates artificial scarcity. That's what I devote most of my energy to fighting. 75 percent of SF is zoned for single family. The parts that aren't? Historically black and brown neighborhoods. It makes no sense. No wonder development in the few areas it's allowed is so intensive and expensive. No wonder the displacement is so severe when the only place new multi-unit housing is allowed is in minority neighborhoods. Leaving discretionary power in the hands of wealthy white planning commissions made (almost always) of realtors means you design your city to benefit realtors. The reason that new development has a pool and a gym and a "community space" isn't to attract residents, it's to get past the planning commissions. The planning commissions who will deny their requested variances at the slightest hint that the housing being built won't be the most premium and attract only rich white couples.

So I devote my local political energy to fighting spot and exclusionary zoning, advocating for the development of housing in my wealthy suburb, legalizing public housing, and enacting rent control and eviction protections.

I'll be happy for us all when we get the revolution, but I'm not going to uphold the status quo in the meantime.