September 17, 2019
The $600 million bond that’s up for a vote in November differs from the big-ticket housing bond that passed in 2018 by giving more leeway to developers to devise projects in keeping with city guidelines as well as by focusing on the western and southern areas of San Francisco as potential sites for affordable housing
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2019
“It’s an estimate, and it’s probably even a low estimate: We should be building a little over 2,000 units of affordable housing every year” - Fernando
Read MoreSeptember 4, 2019
Voters weigh $600 million for low-and middle-income residents, plus housing its educators.
Read MoreAugust 20, 2019
Council of Community Housing Organizations did the reading, writing, and arithmetic on teacher housing costs
Read MoreAugust 20, 2019
Peter Cohen joints KPFA for an discussion on CCHO’s report, Who Will Teach our Children? Housing the Bay Area’s Educators.
Read MoreAugust 19, 2019
Most educators in the San Francisco Bay Area don’t make enough to pay for market-rate rent or purchase a home near their schools, according to a report issued by CCHO.
Read MoreAugust 14, 2019
On this edition of Civic, we look into the proposal for a $600 million dollar housing bond that will go before San Francisco voters in November.
Read MoreAugust 1, 2019
“We recognize it has a role, but it’s a pretty narrow role. For those of us in the affordability movement, we ask, ‘How do we get housing for our needs and who’s being served?’ And not just ask, ‘Is stuff being built?’" Mr. Cohen says.
Read MoreJuly 15, 2019
Among San Francisco housing advocates, the program is generally seen as a positive, albeit modest, effort. “For people facing instability in their neighborhood, it provides a pathway to stay,” said Fernando Martí.
Read MoreJuly 10, 2019
“To create more equality for low-income workers is to build affordable housing that allows them to live more easily.”
Read MoreJune 15, 2019
The influential Council of Community Housing Organizations…spokeswoman Maya Chupkov said that while the group supports streamlining proposals, the main barrier to affordable housing is something else: “Funding.”
Read MoreJune 7, 2019
“If you look around, there are projects breaking ground and there are examples in the past that when fees went up development still continues when the economy and market are hot,” Maya Chupkov of CCHO said. “We can’t keep kicking the can down the road. With the Central SoMa plan coming we have an opportunity to help the community in SoMa and make sure all the developments pay their fair share.”
Read MoreMay 14, 2019, SF Weekly
Each square foot of office space developed means more for affordable housing, but the limit is stunted by a 22-year-old study.
Read MoreApril 23, 2019, SF Weekly
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer wants excess tax revenues for the city to produce, acquire, and permanently preserve affordable housing.
Read MoreApril 18, 2019, Nonprofit Quarterly
“COPA right-to-purchase will be a powerful tool to help address the affordability crisis” - Fernando Marti
Read MoreApril 17, 2019, City Lab
A neighborhood debate over music swiftly became something bigger, and louder: a cry for self-determination from a community that is struggling to be heard.
Read MoreApril 16, 2019, SF Weekly
Housing nonprofits will stand a better chance of permanently protecting rent-controlled buildings from the speculative market.
Read MoreApril 12, 2019, Nonprofit Quarterly
A proposal authored by San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer called the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is rapidly advancing in the city’s Board of Supervisor.
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