I’ve lived in the SF Bay Area pretty much my whole life and I just want to say you hit the nail on the head. Do you know of any politicians who are working to make this happen? I’m pretty liberal, but I sometimes feel we live in such a bubble here that even ideas like these are a third rail...
Permit streamlining (in order to make affordable and supportive housing more tractable), increasing regional transit cooperation, these are projects of sub-groups of YIMBY Action. https://yimbyaction.org/join/