The hearing Monday on the mayor’s Rich Family Zoning Plan was kind of surreal. Beyond all the rhetoric, two perspectives emerged: Some people argued that the private market in our late-stage Capitalism will still work to solve our problems. Some people argued that it won’t.

The rest was just political window dressing.

As one speaker noted, the Yimby argument that more supply will fix gthe price problem “is rooted in the economics of the 1950s. This is not the 1950s.”

No, it’s not.

Michelle from the Chinese Progressive Organization made the points: “The plan does not plan for adequate affordable housing and a plan to finance it. It will increase displacement as economic inequality increases. We know what put us here: Scott Wiener and the Yimby agenda and the real estate money.”

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