They’re just full of hypocrisy.

I really don’t think that’s a good metric given that the average house cost in San Francisco is 1.12 million dollars. Someone making $250,000 a year isn’t affording that house any more than someone making $54,000. They’re both priced out. That’s the point everyone else is making. That and the new idea what anyone working for a living is not upper class.

Do you have a source for all of this?

prohibit sitting on apartments to raise rent - prohibit leaving apartments empty to keep rent high

Limiting air bnbs - keep housing for permanent resident rather than short term rent

You don’t need to keep a short term rental to not limit housing. Otherwise hotel rooms that can be upwards of $300 would count as houses.

We should financially apologize for the atrocities and lift people up like you suggest, but that’s not what gentrification means. The other commenter was right. Gentrification means upgrading an area and displacing those who live there.

gentrification jĕn″trə-fĭ-kā′shən noun

• The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.

• The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

• The restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents).

https://www.wordnik.com/words/gentrification

It’s a little funny, but it’s better to crowd source a society and pay for things up front than it is to have every single thing be a toll. Could you imagine fire fighters verifying your credit card before they come out?