February 3, 2020

Groups backing her also included Chinatown Community Development Center and a coalition of affordable housing developers, The Council of Community Housing Organizations, known as “Choo Choo.”

January 28, 2020

“No matter where you are in the state or what size the project is, there should be some affordability requirement above what may already be required.”

January 25, 2020

Churches in San Francisco looking to build affordable housing will benefit from Proposition E, which rezoned large lots and public sites to allow for 100% affordable housing.

January 16, 2020

“Through the collaboration of District Staff, United Educators, the Council of Community Housing Organizations, Housing Accelerator Fund and Mayor's Office, we were able to create a policy that can become a model for how we develop Educator Housing moving forward.”

January 15, 2020

The resolution, the result of collaboration between the district, the mayor’s office, the union, the Council of Community Housing Organizations and an affordable housing fund, stems from the voters’ approval of two propositions last year.

January 8, 2020

San Francisco passed a business tax measure for homeless housing and services, which included a similar rent subsidy. The funding source isn’t available yet because the measure is stuck in litigation, said Fernando Marti, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations.

January 5, 2020

CCHO's Marti explains the “need to put massive public investments into affordable housing” to fix affordability issues. Separating affordable housing underground with lower quality amenities goes against SF’s Inclusionary Housing law.

December 11, 2019

“It feels like we won, and that’s a really, really good feeling,” Jackman Buitrago said.

December 8, 2019

By Fernando Martí, Peter Cohen and Maya Chupkov

California cities need equitable, place-based planning, and we are hopeful that bills coming from the state legislature will help promote local community planning, and not undermine it.

In January, the legislature will be going back to two such proposals, Senate Bill 50 and Assembly Bill 1279. SB 50 increases density and heights in “transit-rich” areas focused on urban core neighborhoods, while AB 1279 looks at low-density and “high-opportunity” neighborhoods and suburbs. Both bills have been heavily discussed within housing justice circles across the state.

This past Thursday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors heard a resolution calling for significant amendments to SB 50.

Why should we care in San Francisco?

State intervention bills like these have gotten criticism from conservative suburbs wary of any change, and that is what has captured the most media attention, but also from progressive communities concerned with fueling gentrification and displacement, giveaways to private developers, and the stripping away of local opportunity for pro-density community planning. This kind of blanket intervention by the state, if not done right, could be terrible for our San Francisco communities.

November 17, 2019

Sasha Perigo digs into why a public bank would help make housing more affordable.

November 17, 2019

In a fresh BBC news report on the housing affordability squeeze in California and particularly the Bay Area, the UC Berkeley Terner Center and the CCHO both point to the income and wealth disparity driving the squeeze

November 14, 2019

San Francisco voters approved two ballot measures aimed at bringing more affordable housing to one of the least affordable cities in the United States.

November 6, 2019

“This is the biggest citywide zoning effort for affordable housing in modern history,” said a jubilant Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council for Community Housing Organizations (CCHO).

November 6, 2019

“This is the biggest citywide zoning effort for affordable housing in modern history,” said a jubilant Peter Cohen.

November 5, 2019

Fernando Marti, co-director of CCHO, said that while it’s “great that the tech giants are trying to outdo each other” with contributions, they are also driving the need with their breakneck growth.

October 28, 2019

"We say that Prop. A and E are complementary measures,” Cohen said. “They both address affordable housing developers' two biggest obstacles: the funding and the land.”

October 23, 2019

We recently told you that San Francisco's housing production for low-income earners is out of sync with the actual demand. It all came out in a report last week by the Legislative Budget Analyst's Office.

October 17, 2019

“The policy question is: How do we house these workers or do we assume they will just commute from Antioch?” said said council Co-director Fernando Marti.

October 17, 2019

A new city report comes as supervisors seek to rectify the massive impact of high-earning jobs on affordable housing.

October 17, 2019

Most people have that one teacher who changed the course of their life forever, but increasingly, students in the Bay Area are losing the opportunity to have that kind of relationship with an educator.