4 vacant apartments for every homeless person in San Francisco, including those in shelters

Source? (Curious for their definition of vacancy.)

A cursory glance shows many of those homes are being renovated or sold [1]. The pied-à-terre / vacancy tax isn’t a terrible idea, but it’s a band-aid on a missing limb. (Though further penalising housing development seems like a very San Francisco way to compound the problem.)

[1] https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/housing/san-francisco-saw-bi...