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.

The federal government awarded San Francisco $180 million to help rehabilitate two-thirds of The City’s ailing public-housing units through a privatization arrangement.

On today’s Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about a 2011 pact between the city of San Francisco and high tech companies, which receive millions of dollars in payroll tax breaks in exchange for setting up shop in the city. San Francisco requires tech companies to give back to the community to receive a six-year break from city payroll taxes.

hrough the patio doors of the sleek studio apartment in San Francisco's brand-new Nema complex, one catches a glimpse of a 65-inch flat-screen TV next to the saline lap pool.

December 23, 2013

For two decades, San Francisco has squeezed concessions from every large residential development built on city soil. That has meant forcing below-market-rate units into each project or making developers pay a fee to opt out -- an option increasingly taken in recent years.

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.

San Franciscans are worried about the cost of living and mostly blaming the spike on rising housing prices, according to a new poll of voters in what has become the nation’s priciest city.