It sounds like you may have missed one of the GP's points when you're blaming renters for not voting. I'll reiterate it with a specific example, although I am on the east coast.
Lots of people want to live in Cambridge, MA. Cambridge is lovely, walkable, and bursting with jobs. But not everyone who wants to can live in Cambridge, because Cambridge has large areas of inappropriately low density that homeowners fight to preserve.
Many people who work in Cambridge live in Everett. Everett is kinda shitty. It doesn't even have good transit to and from Cambridge.
People who live in Everett and want to live in Cambridge can't vote on Cambridge housing policy. They can only vote in Everett.
Local control of zoning sounds so democratic, but it's a tool of rent-seeking, exclusion, and discrimination.
GP made the claim that 63% of SF is renters. While you are correct that there are those who wish they had a vote who cannot, the power is actually in the hands of current renters if they would vote.
This assumes that the claim that 63% of SF is renters is correct. I don't know the truth of that.
Lots of people want to live in Cambridge, MA. Cambridge is lovely, walkable, and bursting with jobs. But not everyone who wants to can live in Cambridge, because Cambridge has large areas of inappropriately low density that homeowners fight to preserve.
Many people who work in Cambridge live in Everett. Everett is kinda shitty. It doesn't even have good transit to and from Cambridge.
People who live in Everett and want to live in Cambridge can't vote on Cambridge housing policy. They can only vote in Everett.
Local control of zoning sounds so democratic, but it's a tool of rent-seeking, exclusion, and discrimination.