Would Harvey Milk, who organized the LGBTQ residents flocking to San Francisco's Castro district in the 1970s into a potent political force that helped elect him as the city's first gay elected leader, be able to afford to live in the City by the Bay today?
It is a question his present-day successor on the Board of Supervisors, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, poses at the start of a report he commissioned that examines how to construct more housing in the various neighborhoods he represents."It seems more likely than not that, after snapping some photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, enjoying the views from the top of Twin Peaks and maybe taking a ride on the Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park, they would have concluded that the rent.