San Francisco Homelessness: ‘Vacancy Tax’ Will Make Housing Problem Worse

American entertainment in the 1960s offered at least one good rule for living: When you’re trapped in quicksand, struggle makes your predicament worse. Throughout pop culture, characters sinking in quicksand learn that help comes only from the outside. Resistance is not only futile. It’s lethal.

Ignoring the social-policy implications of that deep wisdom, San Francisco voters on Election Day approved Measure M, a new regulation that will make the city’s already hellish housing problems worse.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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American entertainment in the 1960s offered at least one good rule for living: When you’re trapped in quicksand, struggle makes your predicament worse. Throughout pop culture, characters sinking in quicksand learn that help comes only from the outside. Resistance is not only futile. It’s lethal.

Ignoring the social-policy implications of that deep wisdom, San Francisco voters on Election Day approved Measure M, a new regulation that will make the city’s already hellish housing problems worse.