The California State legislature is set to vote on a package of affordable housing bills as early as this Friday. Among the bills is SB 35, which would streamline the approval process for development projects in cities that are not meeting regional affordable housing goals.
Read MoreSenate Bill 35, introduced by Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco), aims to streamline the housing approval process by cutting red tape for certain projects.
Read MoreAugust 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.
Read MoreMore 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.
Read MoreAugust 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.
Read MoreEven 4,400 new homes may not be enough.
Read MoreJuly 26, 2017
An estimated 24,500 households in Vancouver are in need of more affordable housing.
Read MoreJuly 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.
Read MoreSenate Bill 35 is a huge game-changer about to hit SF and other gentrifying cities.
Read MoreJune 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.
Read MoreMay 18, 2017
San Francisco's new deal over affordable housing requirements is raising concerns that housing production will slow significantly.
Read MoreMarch 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...
Read MoreMay 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.
Read MoreMarch 23, 2017
A pile of misinformation skews debate about how much below-market housing developers should have to provide.
Read MoreFebruary 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.
Read MoreHere on our San Francisco island, struggles over affordable housing and land-use policy have for decades absorbed much collective energy.
Read MoreFebruary 2, 2017
It was intended to help San Francisco come up with a plan for alleviating its housing crisis.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
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