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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One of the bitter ironies of this boom economy is that a widening range of our city’s workforce is shut out by the real estate market.
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San Francisco will be the least affordable housing market in the U.S. this year, with 72 percent of median income needed to pay a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, according to a forecast by realtor.com.
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The developer is trying to get creative with an unconventional plan to build more units for low-income and middle-class Mission residents than it previously proposed.
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A developer proposing a 330-unit housing complex at the 16th Street BART Station — derided by critics as “the monster in the Mission” — has agreed to fund the creation of 90 units of affordable housing and build a new playground for the adjacent Marshall Elementary School.
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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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February 9, 2015
Rents in cities like San Francisco are soaring. Is it just a matter of building more housing?
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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.
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Beyond the new renderings, this housing data shows why developer Maximus Real Estate Partners may have a big fight on its hands.
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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.
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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.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
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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San Francisco's housing crisis might find salvation from a seemingly unlikely place: Mountain View.
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The impact fees – aimed to help nonprofits that have started to flee San Francisco because of high rents – could be adopted as part of the Central SoMa Plan.
Read MoreWith Tuesday's victory for Proposition K, San Franciscans have created a people's mandate to hold the mayor and the Board of Supervisors accountable to the commitments they have made toward housing affordability.
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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.
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