CCHO IN THE NEWS

“The Next Mayor’s Housing Challenge”

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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“Huge Transit-Centric SoMa Development Plan Kicking into Gear”

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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“Vision for a New Neighborhood at SF’s Pier 70 Gets a Key Approval”

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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“First-Ever Housing Balance Report Shows SF Needs to Better Preserve Below-Market-Rate Homes”

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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“Mission Developer Puts 90 Units of Affordable Housing in Proposal”

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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