My, my, and who is benefiting from the current situation? The landlords who due to housing shorttages can demand higher rents and hide behind 'grassroots activism' and 'environmentalism' to prevent increase of housing supply that would lower their rent income. of course, those dopey berkeley hippies have not yet figured that out - hence their knee jerk reaction against anything thaht smacks of a "big city" or "economic development."
wojtek