October 27, 2017

Peter Cohen works with the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO, nicknamed "choo choo") and talks about what's going on in housing policy and what kind of work he's doing.

March 15, 2017

California's Housing Crisis has a group of millennials advocating for more housing supply, but affordable housing advocates say their goals would displace low income communities...

August 5, 2016

The city by the bay has the nation’s priciest real estate, and a battle is raging over whether tech wealth, population growth, or political will is to blame.

June 29, 2016

The first step of any plan to end homelessness needs to be keeping San Franciscans housed. As study after study has shown, it is primarily San Franciscans that make up the people who experience homelessness in our city…

February 16, 2016

As seems to happen at the turn of every new year, there is once again lots of chatter about “process improvements” and “streamlining” to speed up the timeline for approving developments.

January 26, 2016

In a meeting well-attended by pro-development groups and non-profit housing developers but with few other housing voices, the Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors unanimously recommended a proposal that would fast-track affordable housing projects.

January 7, 2016

The narrative in the mainstream media and from popular think tank organizations over the last several months is that San Francisco is dramatically “underproducing” housing and that this is the reason for The City’s growing unaffordability.

December 4, 2014

Legislation that could speed up the production of below-market-rate housing projects by up to a year will still continue to wend its way through The City’s approval process, despite rejection of the planning code amendment by the Planning Commission on Thursday.

August 18, 2015

The progressives are not the only ones saying that building more market-rate housing won’t solve the city’s problem.

August 3, 2015

We look at the single largest water user in California – and why farmers are growing so much of a thirsty crop that doesn’t make much money.

June 25, 2015

A poll released Thursday by a business-backed policy organization found more than three-quarters of Bay Area residents support building more low-to middle-income housing, and a growing number of people favor greater density in their neighborhoods if it would create more places to live.

June 14, 2014

Market-rate developers and some of their cheerleaders at City Hall have started a new myth to justify the continuing tsunami of luxury housing development…

April 15, 2016

Residential construction in San Francisco is growing at a torrid pace, but concerns continue about whether the city is getting enough of the housing it needs the most.

February 9, 2015

Rents in cities like San Francisco are soaring. Is it just a matter of building more housing?

February 1, 2015

If San Francisco is to maintain its essential character and diversity as it continues to evolve, our city needs a housing agenda that genuinely prioritizes housing for the everyday people who make up over 65 percent of The City ­— the low and moderate income.

January 16, 2015

Politicians and affordable housing advocates will pin their hopes — and their budgets — this fall on winning voters' support for a $250 million bond to pay for new construction. But it won't be easy.

January 3, 2015

If 2014 in San Francisco was the year of the eye-popping economic boom, 2015 will be the year City Hall politicians try to figure out how to deal with the affordability crisis it helped generate.

The proliferation of cranes across the San Francisco skyline signals that more housing is on the way, but it’s not going to be enough to bring relief to those looking to buy or rent a place to live in 2015.

San Francisco may be a leader in California when it comes to building below-market-rate housing, but it is not measuring up when it comes to making sure there is housing that the poorest residents can afford.