There’s just too much space reserved for cars in San Francisco, according to activist Steve Dombek, and it’s not helping everyday residents who want to live in housing they can afford. In his reimagined street diagrams seen below, Dombek reduced the amount of space allocated for parking and driving, and used it instead to provide additional homes and businesses for San Franciscans. The mock-ups, he argues, would help ease financial burdens in a city that has, in the past year alone, experienced a 15 percent hike in home rental costs -- up to $3,129 a month in March -- the Associated Press reported. “Remember that San Francisco is suffering through an affordability crisis caused in large part by a massive housing deficit,” Dombek, who based the designs off of the street he lives on, noted on his website, Narrow Streets SF.

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