December 13, 2016
Almost any big project in the city has the same option, but nobody has pursued it until now.
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December 12, 2016
A project with 200 micro-units has been approved, the first time a San Francisco housing project has used the state's density bonus program, which allows developments with affordable housing to rise 35 percent higher.
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Tenant activists found a strategy to beat back a million-dollar landlord campaign against affordable housing.
Read MoreNovember 14, 2016
City officials are looking for a developer to build at least 50 percent affordable housing as part of a mixed-use development on the vacant Balboa Reservoir site near City College of San Francisco.
Read MoreHere in our Bay Area “bubble,” we continue to reel from the national news — worried not only about what this shift means for people of color, immigrants, women, and LGBT community, but also about the direct impacts that will be felt in the coming months in federal funding for housing, health care, and other critical social programs.
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Prop P is one of several super technical housing policy measures on the San Francisco ballot. It would change the way the city picks developers to build affordable housing on public land.
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Inconvenient truths about a “Clear-Eyed Report.”
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When talking about the Realtors’ Propositions P and U on this November’s ballot, two widely opposed measures that mess with the wonky details of how affordable housing is built in San Francisco, it’s easy to lose sight of the real people who stand to lose if these measures pass.
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Props P, U, Q and R reflect Trumpian politics in San Francisco.
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October 25, 2016
A city program meant to keep at-risk tenants in place and transform small buildings into permanently affordable housing may get a funding boost soon thanks to new legislation to be introduced today at the Board of Supervisors.
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Airbnb recently proposed changes to its listing policies for short-term rental property owners in New York City and San Francisco, possibly in response to threats of aggressive action from state and local lawmakers.
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If you follow the politics of housing development in San Francisco you know it’s been a highly divisive year; long-time affordable housing activists have been sparring with pro-growth advocates. The city’s November ballot reflects that divide.
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Shocking data shows 10,000 existing residents replaced every year.
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October 16, 2016
Two competing propositions on the San Francisco ballot both claim to be good government measures that will increase the city’s affordable housing stock.
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The rationale behind recently-proposed “solutions” to the housing affordability crisis that seek to reduce limits and regulation on high-end housing development policy is the theory of Filtering.
Read MoreOctober 9, 2016
In the midst of the worst housing crisis in our city’s history, progressive housing advocates are developing innovative ways to expand affordable housing options.
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October 8, 2016
A pair of property-tax measures on the San Francisco ballot next month would put nearly $1 billion in bonds toward building and repairing city schools and boosting the number of affordable housing units across the city.
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San Francisco voters will again see a strong presence of housing-related measures on the November ballot.
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September 25, 2016
It’s been 27 years since San Francisco was hit with the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in the middle of the World Series between the Giants and the A’s, leaving neighborhoods in crisis and many people displaced from their homes.
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