A healthy economy and soaring rents and home prices are spurring demand for more affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, but barriers, including cuts in government funding, are making it tough to meet that need.

Mayor Ed Lee is proposing funneling $94 million in public money over the next two years into constructing affordable housing in San Francisco as the city grapples with stratospheric rents and increased evictions driven by a booming economy that is also causing a surge in tax revenue.

Another ambitious blueprint to address housing in San Francisco has come through the pipeline, this time courtesy of the San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations.

Some of San Francisco’s biggest developers met with city officials Thursday afternoon at SPUR to confront what they see as the political backlash against growth sparked by the influx of tech workers, the luxury construction boom and rising housing costs.

In nearly every Forum show on Priced Out, KQED's series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, "Build Baby Build." That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.

The Bay Area's housing market is white hot, and that's left low and middle income people struggling to find a place to live within their means.