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The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis
ReasonTV
ReasonTV tells the story of Bob Tillman, who spent nearly five years and $1.4 million trying to convert his San Francisco laundromat into apartments. It walks through the permitting, appeals and neighborhood opposition he faced.
It is HN's go-to concrete example of how local regulation and NIMBYism block new housing in San Francisco and California.
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