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.

The solution to the city’s housing crisis could become a bidding war at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday.

May 12, 2015

If voters approve Mayor Ed Lee’s $250 million housing bond in November, they will unlock a stream of cash that the city will use to subsidize rental housing units for middle-class residents for the first time.

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.

April 14, 2015

San Francisco’s Department of Real Estate is getting ready to sell 30 Van Ness Ave., which could pump more than $75 million into city coffers and provide land for up to 600 units of new housing.

San Francisco will be the least affordable housing market in the U.S. this year, with 72 percent of median income needed to pay a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, according to a forecast by realtor.com.

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.

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.

There's been a lot of talk lately about using our publicly controlled lands for housing development. This would be an important step in city policy.

February 9, 2015

Rents in cities like San Francisco are soaring. Is it just a matter of building more housing?

February 1, 2015

If San Francisco is to maintain its essential character and diversity as it continues to evolve, our city needs a housing agenda that genuinely prioritizes housing for the everyday people who make up over 65 percent of The City ­— the low and moderate income.

Beyond the new renderings, this housing data shows why developer Maximus Real Estate Partners may have a big fight on its hands.

January 17, 2015

City College of San Francisco’s plan to sell or lease its Gough Street administrative headquarters to a market-rate developer is raising the ire of housing advocates and elected officials who say such publicly owned properties should be set aside for affordable units.

January 16, 2015

Politicians and affordable housing advocates will pin their hopes — and their budgets — this fall on winning voters' support for a $250 million bond to pay for new construction. But it won't be easy.