Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0I'm spending a lot of time looking at #SanFrancisco's proposed #FamilyZoningPlan. Perhaps that's why reading about Pope Leo XIV's just released Dilexi Te (https://apnews.com/article/vatican-poor-pope-leo-francis-wealth-elite-fb63ece4f0c302c7a321a09da52374ac) brought it to mind.
We have a massive affordable housing problem, with housing unaffordable to most people (based on rent burdens) - and he wrote "“Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
And I see a zoning plan that allows (incentivizes?) 90' buildings with 4000 sq ft residential units, all less than 9 units so no inclusionary requirement - and hear planning staff talk about how it will help affordability through the inclusionary requirements. Disingenuous is an understatement, but the Planning does answer to #MayorLurie.
Whose brother, a real estate agent for the wealthy, bemoaned a lack of mansions for his clients, living in that bubble.
Pope Leo XIV criticizes wealthy elite's bubble of comfort and luxury
Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. Leo confirmed on Thursday that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice. The Vatican released the document, entitled “I have loved you,” which Francis had begun to write in his final months but never finished. Leo credited Francis with the text, cited him repeatedly, but said he had made the document his own. The conclusion Leo draws is that the Catholic Church’s “preferential option for the poor” has existed from the start, is non-negotiable and is in fact the very essence of what it means to be Christian.