The blue areas are the only places in the Bay Area where it is legally permissable to build multifamily (aka affordable) housing. Your high rent is a direct result of this exclusionary zoning.

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area
If you were to change this exclusionary policy, your rent price would drop instantly. We wouldn't have to raise taxes to build affordable housing.

Housing would just be affordable on its own, like it is in every other city that has legal multifamily housing.
Imagine if the Bay Area showed the leadership and progressiveness on this issue that Minneapolis has https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/11/housing-crisis-single-family-homes-policy-227265
How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes

Desperate to build more housing, the city just rewrote its decades-old zoning rules.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/11/housing-crisis-single-family-homes-policy-227265
The whole report from @oandbinstitute is really excellent. In case you were curious about the racial overlay....
Link here again: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area
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