Being anti-housing in urban areas doesn't just hurt the poor and middle class. It's also definitively anti-environment.
The people who would've ended up in new housing don't just disappear into the ether; they end up living in some further out suburb, where they contribute to encroaching on nature, and where they have longer, more energy-intensive commutes.
To be an environmentalist and a NIMBY is a contradiction in terms. The bay area, unfortunately, is chock full of hypocrites of this sort.
The people who would've ended up in new housing don't just disappear into the ether; they end up living in some further out suburb, where they contribute to encroaching on nature, and where they have longer, more energy-intensive commutes.
To be an environmentalist and a NIMBY is a contradiction in terms. The bay area, unfortunately, is chock full of hypocrites of this sort.