January 12, 2016
A charter amendment that more than doubles the amount of below-market-rate housing required in private residential developments — and shifts the policy-making process for such a change from the voters back to the Board of Supervisors — is on track for the June ballot.
Read MoreJanuary 12, 2016
The proposal by Supervisor Jane Kim is likely to spark a fight with market-rate developers who have argued that increasing affordable housing requirements may kill some projects, resulting in less affordable housing.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
Read MoreDecember 15, 2015
Last Thursday at the Planning Commission, affordable housing policy in San Francisco took a giant step backward.
Read MoreDecember 9, 2015
Pro-development boosters are proposing to upend The City’s inclusionary housing policy by allowing market-rate developers to pick and choose winners and losers in deciding which neighborhoods get affordable housing.
Read MoreDecember 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.
Read MoreDecember 3, 2015
When people talk about the dominant news story in The City, the housing crisis is usually the first thing mentioned
Read MoreDecember 1, 2015
Mayor Ed Lee is convening a group of developers and affordable-housing advocates to hammer out a ballot measure that would increase the percentage of below-market units that must be included in new projects.
Read MoreNovember 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.
Read MoreSan Francisco voters faced five different measures all meant to ease the housing crisis. The Four talks to housing experts about the election results and what's next.
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In this November’s election, voters have an opportunity to weigh in on six measures that together form an “Affordable City” platform for 2015: Propositions A, D, F, I, J and K.
SF Council of Community Housing Organizations talks about housing measures in San Francisco
Read MoreIf you live in San Francisco, you’ve got local elections coming up next month; are you planning on voting? Last year, only about a third of eligible San Franciscans made it out to the polls. This year you might want to.
Read More… a School Board member’s role in a sleazy Ed Lee/Julie Christensen event, and why is SF still stuck with Comcast?
Read MoreIt was so San Francisco the way Cuihua Liang finally got an apartment — all thanks to an earthquake and a ruined freeway.
Read MoreThe San Francisco Giants’ brass was not happy when Supervisor Jane Kim threatened to go to the ballot to force the team to provide more affordable housing at Mission Rock, the 28-acre development it wants to build on the parking lot across the Lefty O’Doul Bridge from AT&T Park.
Read MoreThere is a controversial measure on the Nov. 3 ballot in San Francisco called Proposition I, which proponents say deals with the city's skyrocketing cost of housing in the gentrified Mission District.
Read MoreThe number 31 changed everything for Jessica Pascasio and her fiance, Julian Aleman.
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2015
Neighborhoods across the west side of San Francisco could see thousands of new housing units under a measure Mayor Ed Lee is proposing that would allow builders to exceed current height restrictions in exchange for including more affordable units.
Read MoreSan Francisco’s debate over a proposed fee on development to generate millions of dollars annually for Muni and other transit needs rolled on Monday, as a vote on the proposal was postponed by a Board of Supervisors’ committee.
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