Last month, I asked my representative on the Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, to make it easier to build new housing in our city.
I'm a gay man who moved to San Francisco a decade ago for graduate school, so our housing crisis is personal to me: I know firsthand what it's like to want to fulfill the LGBTQ person's dream of moving to San Francisco only to struggle to afford housing here.
But Preston responded to my concern over the city's housing crisis by publicly insulting me: "Are you seriously a professor of something?" In fact I am — both Preston's constituent and, now, a professor at UC Berkeley.
If Preston wants to help vulnerable communities afford housing, he should listen to the science on housing affordability, not insult