February 3, 2018
The Moscone Convention Center parking garage would be redeveloped into a 320-foot tower with at least 650 hotel rooms and at least 100 affordable housing units under a plan being put forward by the city.
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November 14, 2016
City officials are looking for a developer to build at least 50 percent affordable housing as part of a mixed-use development on the vacant Balboa Reservoir site near City College of San Francisco.
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May 8, 2016
The future of a huge swath of The City is currently up for grabs, and with it, the future of San Francisco’s approach to affordable housing.
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February 6, 2016
For the last few years, The City has made big strides in recognizing the critical need for housing affordable to middle-income residents, as the affordability crisis has intensified and broadened to include more and more San Franciscans shut out of the private real estate development market.
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November 22, 2015
The city has reached an agreement to sell 30 Van Ness Ave. to developer Related California for $80 million, setting the stage for a 600-unit residential tower to rise in the middle of a rapidly developing midtown crossroads where more than 4,000 housing units are in the planning pipeline.
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June 17, 2015
City College of San Francisco has selected a developer to build as many as 300 units on a property it owns on the edge of the Civic Center, a move that will intensify the already hot debate over whether public land should be set aside for affordable housing.
Read MoreFrom Oakland to San Francisco, the message to city officials is clear: Publicly owned land should be used to provide desperately needed affordable housing, not to support more luxury development.
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April 14, 2015
San Francisco’s Department of Real Estate is getting ready to sell 30 Van Ness Ave., which could pump more than $75 million into city coffers and provide land for up to 600 units of new housing.
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There's been a lot of talk lately about using our publicly controlled lands for housing development. This would be an important step in city policy.
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January 17, 2015
City College of San Francisco’s plan to sell or lease its Gough Street administrative headquarters to a market-rate developer is raising the ire of housing advocates and elected officials who say such publicly owned properties should be set aside for affordable units.
Read MoreSan Francisco's city leaders are trying at all different ways to address the city's housing crunch. Today we take a closer look at two of them. Supervisor Eric Mar is expected to publicly ask Mayor Ed Lee about putting a new tax on unoccupied luxury apartments in the city. Lee recently unveiled a plan to transform some of the city's underused public property into housing.
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December 13, 2014
After about a year of study on just how to develop underused public land in San Francisco, it's become clear this week that at least half of the housing built on those sites will be affordable for the low- or middle-class.
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DECEMBER 12, 2014 – Almost 30 years ago, the San Francisco Planning Commission heard a proposal to develop the empty Balboa Reservoir for affordable housing. There was talk, and more talk, and nothing ever happened.
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