Look what the free market does for housing

Pub date October 7, 2008
WriterTim Redmond
SectionPolitics Blog

San Francisco has approved or built thousands of new high-end condos, and if the free-market theory is right, as supply is increased, rents should start coming down.

But look! They aren’t.

San Francisco is an utterly irrational housing market. You can build luxury condos til the cows come home and it won’t bring down rents.