"You will need to swamp SFBA with housing (tens of thousands of new units a year) in order to drive down market prices."
Or just wait ... what, another year or two ?
Every 5-8 years you have an opportunity to buy SFBA real estate at fire sale prices. If all of the activists and hand-wringers and bloggers[1] spent half as much time doing some simple financial planning instead of bemoaning the end of SF as they know it, they'd all be owners instead of renters and the "character" of the city (as they understand it) would be saved.
Or just wait ... what, another year or two ?
Every 5-8 years you have an opportunity to buy SFBA real estate at fire sale prices. If all of the activists and hand-wringers and bloggers[1] spent half as much time doing some simple financial planning instead of bemoaning the end of SF as they know it, they'd all be owners instead of renters and the "character" of the city (as they understand it) would be saved.
Or is it different this time ?[2]
[1] http://www.48hills.org/
[2] No, it isn't.