San Francisco’s real estate market is crazy right now. You know it, we know it, everybody knows it. Besides the weather in October (reliably nice) and Vernon Davis’s hands (reliably soft), the housing market is on the top of San Franciscans’ minds right now like nothing else. So that’s why it was nice to read this morning’s post on Atlantic Cities by SPUR’s executive director Gabriel Metcalf about rising rents and housing horror stories. Metcalf cuts through the rhetoric and clearly analyzes what is—and isn’t—a solution to the cost of housing. Here are our five take-aways from his piece:

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