June 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.”
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June 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.”
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May 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.
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April 23, 2019, SF Weekly
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer wants excess tax revenues for the city to produce, acquire, and permanently preserve affordable housing.
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April 18, 2019, Nonprofit Quarterly
“COPA right-to-purchase will be a powerful tool to help address the affordability crisis” - Fernando Marti
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April 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.
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April 16, 2019, SF Weekly
Housing nonprofits will stand a better chance of permanently protecting rent-controlled buildings from the speculative market.
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April 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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April 9, 2019, Next City
A new law proposed in San Francisco could give nonprofit groups the first crack at buying multifamily buildings when they go up for sale, in an effort to preserve affordable housing in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
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March 28, 2019, SF Weekly
The city’s current formula for funding affordable housing by charging office-space developers is based on a 1997 study. That could soon change.
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March 11, 2019, San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Cohen, co-director of CCHO, said turning big single-family homes into modern-day boardinghouses seems fine, but converting existing apartment buildings or single-room occupancy hotels — as some co-living companies do — “is, effectively, shifting precious existing housing supply from one clientele to another.”
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February 24, 2019, USA Today
In San Francisco, Fernando Marti, co-director of the Council for Community Housing Organizations, a non-profit that crafts affordable housing public policy, says he is grateful for the newfound corporate focus on the housing crisis, but is also skeptical about whether the gestures are too little, too late.
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February 20, 2019
According to Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, which advocates for affordable housing, the impetus behind Proposition K was to establish a systemic process where agencies combed their assets annually, prompting public discussion.
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February 19, 2019
Figuring out the right way to balance these things is not an easy task. But it’s important to understand that that’s the question in front of us.
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February 16, 2019
“There are a few projects that are a little iffy as far as where the money is going to come from,” Marti said. “These are projects that we expected the city to put out (requests for proposals) on, now they are telling us to wait a little bit” - Fernando Marti, executive director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations
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January 24, 2019
A new partnership of Bay Area businesses and foundations is planning to raise $540 million for two funds to help build and preserve affordable and workforce housing
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January 23, 2019
“The tax is a means to “discourage bad behavior,” such as people holding onto housing units only for investments, and free up critical housing.”
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December 17, 2018
"San Francisco is losing stable rent-controlled units at an astonishing rate,” said Maya Chupkov, communications director at the Council of Community Housing Organizations.
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December 12, 2018
“In this Housing Balance Report, authored by the Planning Department, we have the real story from the city’s own Building Permit data, Planning data, and Rent Board data” - Peter Cohen
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December 11, 2018
Fernando Martí of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, who supports the proposal said in a statement that “the state of our evictions and speculation crisis demands that we have every tool possible.”
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