San Francisco’s Chance to invest in housing our workers
November 14, 2021
By Fernando Martí, Kim Tavaglione and Kung Feng
There was a time when workers in San Francisco, teachers, nurses, craftsmen, hotel and restaurant workers, nonprofit service providers — the folks who built, run and proudly serve this city — could afford a stable, middle-class life for themselves in The City.
That’s no longer the case.
The majority of the housing built in San Francisco is unaffordable to most workers. The October 2021 report “Housing our Workers,” authored by the Council of Community Housing Organizations, the San Francisco Labor Council and Jobs with Justice, found that of 50,000 union workforce members surveyed only 7% could afford market rate rents in The City.
