August 24, 2017

Pier 70, a long-closed shipbuilding facility that most San Franciscans have never set foot on, moved closer to being transformed into a bustling neighborhood of housing, parks, shops, workplaces and art studios under a proposal the Planning Commission unanimously approved Thursday.

More housing! The Planning Commission has the opportunity today to either push for the housing we need, or continue to promote projects that exacerbate our jobs-housing imbalance.

August 24, 2017

The redevelopment of Pier 70, San Francisco’s biggest waterfront project in a generation, into a bustling postindustrial neighborhood is steaming toward planning approvals.

Even 4,400 new homes may not be enough.

Sacramento leads the country in annual rent growth, a function of our rapid population growth, as the fastest growing city in California. Most of them, according to a recent Redfin report, displaced from the Bay Area due to the high cost of living.

July 26, 2017

An estimated 24,500 households in Vancouver are in need of more affordable housing.

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.

Senate Bill 35 is a huge game-changer about to hit SF and other gentrifying cities.

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.

May 18, 2017

San Francisco's new deal over affordable housing requirements is raising concerns that housing production will slow significantly.

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...

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.

March 23, 2017

A pile of misinformation skews debate about how much below-market housing developers should have to provide.

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.

Here on our San Francisco island, struggles over affordable housing and land-use policy have for decades absorbed much collective energy.

February 2, 2017

It was intended to help San Francisco come up with a plan for alleviating its housing crisis.

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.

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.

December 13, 2016

Almost any big project in the city has the same option, but nobody has pursued it until now.

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.