The "kinds of forces" causing these problems is government policy restricting the supply of housing over decades, and refusing to enforce the law.
This is not some national problem where SF is somehow blameless and helpless to confront.
Either way, progressives and their policies have been bad because they haven't dealt with the challenges they face well at all. You can try pretending it's not a self-inflicted wound, but they're still ineffective in that case. What progressive ideas could a NYC or SF implement at this point that haven't been tried already?
The "kinds of forces" causing these problems is government policy restricting the supply of housing over decades, and refusing to enforce the law.
This is not some national problem where SF is somehow blameless and helpless to confront.
Either way, progressives and their policies have been bad because they haven't dealt with the challenges they face well at all. You can try pretending it's not a self-inflicted wound, but they're still ineffective in that case. What progressive ideas could a NYC or SF implement at this point that haven't been tried already?