Of course what you say is true. You are in my former industry. I built the last Green, Special Needs affordable housing complex in Los Angeles County. In 2010 (Mason Court, 12 units). Until or unless greed of any type does not dominate every court, every office, every agency, every bank and lending institution, every city council and county board in this nation - nothing you say here will change. It will only accelerate and get much worse. I left California with my husband at the end of March 2020. I now live a happy and healthy and fulfilled lifestyle on Florida's Gulf Coast. A very large amount (10K-20K units) of relatively affordable single family homes were already permitted at that time in our two-county area and they are presently, post-Hurricane Ian, being built. It is 100% about greed or self-interest in the short term, and it has zero concern with any of the 19th century issues that cities were concerned with like "open space" or "parks" or getting people out of tenement housing into safe and decent housing. It is 100% greed, 24-7, 365, and none too shy about how they continue to make their cash and live their ever-more luxurious and extreme lifestyles of privilege while ever-growing numbers of others drop off the bottom ... ablebodied, ill - it doesn't matter. There will always be more immigrants to exploit or even current families and residents. That is the way the "leaders" and people with money think. They don't care. Any more? Neither do I.