San Francisco zones out the middle class

Tom Sowell points out that San Francisco used to much like the rest of the country until government restrictions came along:

It is the land--and the high price of the land is due to severe restrictions on building anything on it. Before those land use restrictions--"open space" laws, planning commission requirements and environmentalist regulations--became severe during the 1970s, California housing prices were very much like those elsewhere in the country.

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