With soaring cost of living, San Francisco businesses can't find new low-cost employees

[Igel]

41. "The market" complained for years.

But everybody knew that the way things were being done would yield wonderful results. The hypothesis was assumed true and the city was an experiment.

Cause --> effect. If the cause doesn't produce the desired effect, perhaps the experiment falsifies the hypothesis.

Protect large areas from development, make other areas too low-return to make development in the least profitable. You get less development overall, with "development" in this case meaning "living space."

"There is no market solution" immediately removes a mess of undesirable solutions that might work but which, if they did work, would cause massive (psych) damage. It's like saying, at the start of an armed conflict, "There is no military solution." You immediately reduce the solution space, and might a priori rule out the optimum solution entirely. While you search for the best remaining solution or the only remaining solution, though, things continue to get worse.