this group calls itself yimby: yes in my backyard. >> welcome everybody to the rally for housing. >>reporter: sonja traus, hobbled by a broken foot, is hopping mad about the lack of new construction, which she says is inflating housing prices throughout the bay area. >> it's caused by zoning but it's also caused by super local control, that's really what it is. >> reporter: and you're trying to disrupt that? >> yeah. >> reporter: yimby groups are fighting to ease local development requirements, originally meant to maximize community input. but that today effectively delay new projects for years. meaning newcomers have to outbid existing residents for a place to live. >> it's one for one replacement. everybody that comes in, basically someone has to leave. >> reporter: and yet more people are coming in. >> exactly. there's more people that want to live here than we have space for. and step one is make more space. >> reporter: a good rule of thumb is that, on average, two new jobs are enough to justify a new housing unit. but that hasn't been the case in san francisco. in fact, since 2

not a bad frame for your campaign. - yeah, yimby. there's all this fighting over it, and it get the issues. there were a lot of activists that stopped a lot of really horrible developments in san francisco, years ago. but it's not the same thing. there's not enough housing. there's just not enough housing for the people living there. - ok, so housing, we have two minutes, housing, what else? - i think the income inequality and how to deal with the terrible drug issues in san francisco, and mental health issues. - is there something that could be done that you're aware of? - i don't have a good answer so i'm not going to give you one. so i don't know, i could make it up, but i wouldn't want to do that, but it's very clear that the mental health issues are severe among the homeless in san francisco, and so, i think that's something that has to be dealt with. also, making the city a more civil society, in terms of coming together, there's just so many differences that don't need to have happen. - let me give you one suggestion. fix the

ceremony to the cheer of homeless advocates who wore yimby, yes in my backyard buttons.n the original plan, the mayor said d.c. general would close by 2018. with the council changes the date but january 2020. reporting from southeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. announcer: now "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. ♪ ♪ >> i'm highly confident this killer was radicalized at least in some part through the internet. >> these acts of violence have to stop. >> what he did was completely act of terrorist. >> it has to end. >> being treated as a terrorist investigation. leon: 49 lives cut short during a night out at the club. alison: you can see some of their faces here. and all of their names right now at the bottom of your screen. leon: that is about the man who burst in the club and started shooting at orlando. alison: roz plater is at the terror alert desk now with the newest information. roz? roz: we are getting bits and pieces of information about the 53 survivors, some of whom were in grave condition. we are told half were taken to the surgery yesterday. more today.