May 10, 2018
A big change is coming to South of Market: The Central SoMa Plan is before the Planning Commission today. It is a massive neighborhood rezoning, estimated to generate 35,000 new jobs and at least 7,000 new homes by 2040.
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March 15, 2018
The housing challenge for the next San Francisco mayor will be not only to expand Mayor Ed Lee’s successes in building affordable housing, but also to address the increasing mismatch between housing affordability and the job growth generated by the economic boom that unfolded under Lee’s watch.
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February 27, 2018
A seven-year push to encourage transit-centric job growth in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is about to become reality, as Mayor Mark Farrell and the Planning Department this week introduce zoning legislation that could produce as many as 40,000 new jobs and 7,000 housing units.
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October 9, 2017
To protect their tenants, clients, members, and employees, all nonprofits should know the law about when immigration officers are allowed to enter nonpublic spaces.
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August 24, 2017
Pier 70, a long-closed shipbuilding facility that most San Franciscans have never set foot on, moved closer to being transformed into a bustling neighborhood of housing, parks, shops, workplaces and art studios under a proposal the Planning Commission unanimously approved Thursday.
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More housing! The Planning Commission has the opportunity today to either push for the housing we need, or continue to promote projects that exacerbate our jobs-housing imbalance.
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August 24, 2017
The redevelopment of Pier 70, San Francisco’s biggest waterfront project in a generation, into a bustling postindustrial neighborhood is steaming toward planning approvals.
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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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Shocking data shows 10,000 existing residents replaced every year.
Read MoreThe third “Housing Balance Report” from the City Planning Department was quietly released last week, coincidentally one day before April Fool’s Day and one week before a Planning Commission hearing today.
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… a School Board member’s role in a sleazy Ed Lee/Julie Christensen event, and why is SF still stuck with Comcast?
Read MoreSan Francisco’s housing crisis has apparently reached such a critical level that residents are more often taking it upon themselves to define just how dire the situation is.
Read MoreThe first “Housing Balance Report” from the Planning Department is fresh off the presses!
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San Francisco needs to better preserve its below-market-rate housing while building more such units to meet The City’s goal of a creating one-third of new homes for low- to moderate-income buyers, according to a first-of-its-kind report released Tuesday night.
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Development on Divisadero is getting divisive.
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MAY 12,2015 — We love our baseball team, but we don’t like the way the Giants are playing games with last November’s Proposition K, the Housing Balance Measure.
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Last Friday the San Francisco Association of Realtors penned an Op Ed in the Chronicle lambasting the proposed state bill reforms to the Ellis Act and instead promoting the new local Small Sites Acquisition program as the “solution” to the evictions crisis.
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The developer is trying to get creative with an unconventional plan to build more units for low-income and middle-class Mission residents than it previously proposed.
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A developer proposing a 330-unit housing complex at the 16th Street BART Station — derided by critics as “the monster in the Mission” — has agreed to fund the creation of 90 units of affordable housing and build a new playground for the adjacent Marshall Elementary School.
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