Senate Bill 35 is a huge game-changer about to hit SF and other gentrifying cities.
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June 2, 2017
We’ve reached a major milestone in the evolution of The City’s “inclusionary housing” policy, which ensures that market-rate developers build mixed-income communities that include a percentage of permanently affordable units.
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May 18, 2017
San Francisco's new deal over affordable housing requirements is raising concerns that housing production will slow significantly.
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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...
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May 12, 2017
Two competing affordable housing philosophies go head-to-head this week in San Francisco City Hall. One intends to keep middle-class families in a city that’s become increasingly white collar. The other seeks to build more affordable housing for the poor.
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March 23, 2017
A pile of misinformation skews debate about how much below-market housing developers should have to provide.
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February 23, 2017
A new proposal to change The City’s Inclusionary Housing program is threatening to make it even more difficult for lower-income San Francisco workers to find homes.
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Here on our San Francisco island, struggles over affordable housing and land-use policy have for decades absorbed much collective energy.
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February 2, 2017
It was intended to help San Francisco come up with a plan for alleviating its housing crisis.
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January 29, 2017
It is good to see that ”Family Housing” is getting a flash of interest in the media. It’ll be even better to see some substantive policy changes come out of all this attention. Because San Francisco’s need for family housing is not a new story.
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January 3, 2017
A little-known city agency overseeing the development of more than a third of the 10,000 affordable homes the mayor has promised by 2020 is ramping up construction.
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December 13, 2016
Almost any big project in the city has the same option, but nobody has pursued it until now.
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December 12, 2016
A project with 200 micro-units has been approved, the first time a San Francisco housing project has used the state's density bonus program, which allows developments with affordable housing to rise 35 percent higher.
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Tenant activists found a strategy to beat back a million-dollar landlord campaign against affordable housing.
Read MoreNovember 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.
Read MoreHere in our Bay Area “bubble,” we continue to reel from the national news — worried not only about what this shift means for people of color, immigrants, women, and LGBT community, but also about the direct impacts that will be felt in the coming months in federal funding for housing, health care, and other critical social programs.
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Prop P is one of several super technical housing policy measures on the San Francisco ballot. It would change the way the city picks developers to build affordable housing on public land.
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Inconvenient truths about a “Clear-Eyed Report.”
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When talking about the Realtors’ Propositions P and U on this November’s ballot, two widely opposed measures that mess with the wonky details of how affordable housing is built in San Francisco, it’s easy to lose sight of the real people who stand to lose if these measures pass.
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Props P, U, Q and R reflect Trumpian politics in San Francisco.
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