September 25, 2015
City officials plan to encourage private developers to build more below-market-rate units in exchange for increased height limits and other perks.
Read MoreAugust 30, 2015
The first local measure on this November’s ballot will be Proposition A, the $310 million Affordable Housing Bond, a critical proposal to provide necessary funding for addressing the current housing crisis.
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August 18, 2015
The progressives are not the only ones saying that building more market-rate housing won’t solve the city’s problem.
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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.
Read MoreSan Francisco’s housing crisis has apparently reached such a critical level that residents are more often taking it upon themselves to define just how dire the situation is.
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Two regional agencies battling over the future of Bay Area planning — with social justice in the balance.
Read MoreThe first “Housing Balance Report” from the Planning Department is fresh off the presses!
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San Francisco needs to better preserve its below-market-rate housing while building more such units to meet The City’s goal of a creating one-third of new homes for low- to moderate-income buyers, according to a first-of-its-kind report released Tuesday night.
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Development on Divisadero is getting divisive.
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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.
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Voters will likely get a say this November if affordable housing developers should get the first shot at extra city-owned land, rounding out a ballot that will be filled with real estate issues.
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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 MoreJune 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…
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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MAY 12,2015 — We love our baseball team, but we don’t like the way the Giants are playing games with last November’s Proposition K, the Housing Balance Measure.
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The solution to the city’s housing crisis could become a bidding war at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.
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On April 1, The City convened a meeting of the 2015 Housing Bond Working Group to hammer out the details of a bond that will supposedly solve the housing crisis. In true blue-ribbon-panel style, the meeting was a lot more scripted talking than working.
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Last Friday the San Francisco Association of Realtors penned an Op Ed in the Chronicle lambasting the proposed state bill reforms to the Ellis Act and instead promoting the new local Small Sites Acquisition program as the “solution” to the evictions crisis.
Read MoreApril 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.
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