CCHO IN THE NEWS
“How San Francisco Saved Its Public Housing By Getting Rid of It”
July 20, 2017
The wealthy city couldn’t afford to make its public housing livable, so it turned it over to private owners. No one’s happier than the residents.
“Opinion: Alarming Housing Bill Heading for Approval”
Senate Bill 35 is a huge game-changer about to hit SF and other gentrifying cities.
“Inclusionary Housing Is a Lasting Legacy Policy”
June 2, 2017
We’ve reached a major milestone in the evolution of The City’s “inclusionary housing” policy, which ensures that market-rate developers build mixed-income communities that include a percentage of permanently affordable units.
“Can Developers Afford San Francisco’s Escalating Affordable Housing Requirements?”
May 18, 2017
San Francisco's new deal over affordable housing requirements is raising concerns that housing production will slow significantly.
"Facebook Live Panel Session with CCHO, HRC, YIMBY Action, & MHDC"
March 15, 2017
California's Housing Crisis has a group of millennials advocating for more housing supply, but affordable housing advocates say their goals would displace low income communities...
“Proposal Seeks to Shake Up How SF’s Affordable Housing Is Priced”
May 12, 2017
Two competing affordable housing philosophies go head-to-head this week in San Francisco City Hall. One intends to keep middle-class families in a city that’s become increasingly white collar. The other seeks to build more affordable housing for the poor.
“The Real Facts about the Affordable Housing Debate”
March 23, 2017
A pile of misinformation skews debate about how much below-market housing developers should have to provide.
“Don’t Gamble with Housing for the City’s Workforce”
February 23, 2017
A new proposal to change The City’s Inclusionary Housing program is threatening to make it even more difficult for lower-income San Francisco workers to find homes.
“Eye on the State: Housing Crisis Tied to Income Inequality”
Here on our San Francisco island, struggles over affordable housing and land-use policy have for decades absorbed much collective energy.
“SF Controller’s Affordable Housing Compromise Gets Mixed Response”
February 2, 2017
It was intended to help San Francisco come up with a plan for alleviating its housing crisis.
“A City for All Includes Families”
January 29, 2017
It is good to see that ”Family Housing” is getting a flash of interest in the media. It’ll be even better to see some substantive policy changes come out of all this attention. Because San Francisco’s need for family housing is not a new story.
“Former Redevelopment Areas Vital in SF’s Affordable Housing Goals”
January 3, 2017
A little-known city agency overseeing the development of more than a third of the 10,000 affordable homes the mayor has promised by 2020 is ramping up construction.
“SoMa Developer Dodges Local Laws, Upzones New Building Automatically”
December 13, 2016
Almost any big project in the city has the same option, but nobody has pursued it until now.
“First S.F. Housing Project Gets Bigger Using State Law, Prompting Backlash”
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.
"How We Beat the Real Estate Industry"
Tenant activists found a strategy to beat back a million-dollar landlord campaign against affordable housing.
“Balboa Reservoir Development to Have 50 Percent Affordable Housing”
November 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.
"Mixed Results for Affordable Housing"
Here 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.
"Election Briefs: Prop P - Competitive Bidding for Affordable Housing"
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.
“The Bogus Housing Study the Chron Loves”
Inconvenient truths about a “Clear-Eyed Report.”
"Faces of Inclusionary Housing: The People Who Will Be Hurt By Prop. U"
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.