SF Politics

Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies

A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.

SF News

The Bay's Mare Island at the Center of Fight Over Redevelopment and Nature Conservancy

Mother Nature’s reclaimed much of Mare Island since its Naval base heyday, making it a haven for native flora and fauna. But recent battles over its public access, wildfires, and in-limbo development plans threaten the Bay Area Eden’s ecological health.

SF News

These Moms Are Living In A Vacant West Oakland Home To Protest 'Housing-Insecurity'

It's no news that Bay Area housing is grossly overinflated – and downright unaffordable, forcing many into homelessness. And, with a slew of vacant houses sprinkled throughout the region, there's no reason why those domiciles should go uninhabited. At least, that's what these East Bay moms believe.

SF News

98-Year-Old Man Fulfills Mother's Dying Wish To Turn Her SF Property Into Affordable Housing

When San Francisco artist, scientist, and activist Maria “Mitzi” Kolisch died in 1987, she was in the process of trying to turn her humble cottage property in Diamond Heights into housing for low-income adolescents who had aged out of the foster-care system.

SF News

Muni's $400M Potrero Yard Refresh To Include 500 Housing Units, Half Will Be 'Affordable'

In an odd two-birds-with-one-stone throw, Muni has plans to build its first-ever housing development at Potrero Yard, helping both revitalize the outmoded concrete court and (hopefully) introduce over 250 affordable housing units in the process.

Business & Tech

Facebook Pledges $1 Billion For CA Housing As 45 States Join Antitrust Probe

Facebook has one positive PR item to tick off today and a couple of negatives as the New York attorney general announces that 45 states and the District of Columbia and Guam have joined her antitrust probe into Facebook.

SF News

Proposed Extension Of Relocation Benefits Seeks To Help 'Post-Agreement' Treasure Island Residents

A massive multi-billion-dollar redevelopment of Treasure Island, which was agreed on in June of 2011, threatens to displace hundreds who call the man-made island home. However, newly proposed extensions of certain relocation benefits could help some residents sleep well at night.

SF News

Habitat For Humanity Spends Just $10 To Buy Pleasant Hill Parcel, Will Build Affordable Housing

The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.

SF Politics

Feds Investigate SF's Four-Year-Old Neighborhood-Preference Program For Affordable Housing

The Trump Administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has put San Francisco on notice over an affordable housing policy that the Obama Administration had tacitly supported.

SF News

Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget

Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter amendment, Mayor London

SF News

Local Unions Likely To Oppose Mayor's $600 Million Affordable Housing Bond

What's set to be the largest housing bond in San Francisco history could be tanked on the November ballot by vocal opposition from local labor leaders who are concerned about a union-related provision relating to such housing bonds.

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Mayor Breed Backs Ballot Measure To Build Affordable and Teacher Housing On Public-Owned Land

Mayor London Breed just announced the third local proposition she's backing for the November ballot, and it would free up some 500 parcels in San Francisco that are publicly owned for the development of affordable housing.

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More Below Market Rate Housing Found Rented Out Illegally

We know you don’t always watch the little news video reports we embed in these posts, but you really ought to watch the CBS 5 report above on homeowners scamming the system

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing

The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as

SF News

Previously Homeless SF Math Teacher Finds Home

Pretty awful: homeless SF math teacher.https://t.co/cp2TXodKoF— No Politics Retweets (@shabbychef) May 18, 2017 You'll likely recall the Chronicle story from about six weeks back concerning Etoria Cheeks, a teacher

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Math Teacher At SF Public School Ends Up Homeless, Says 'San Francisco Isn't Geared For Me'

Low pay plus high #SanFrancisco housing costs equal 1 homeless math teacher. via @hknightsf https://t.co/uIKS2lGUGG pic.twitter.com/heacnfIkQx— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 9, 2017 San Francisco math teacher and badminton

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San Francisco Remains The Nation's Most Childless City

For most of the last two decades, San Francisco has been among the country's least age-diverse places, boasting one of the lowest concentration of families with children under 18 of any major US

SF News

Facebook Pledges $20 Million To Build Affordable Housing On Peninsula

Facebook is trying to show up other big tech companies once again in terms of corporate citizenship as the company announces the creation of a fund to back the building of affordable housing

SF News

Supervisors Delay 25% Affordable Mission Development Blaming 'Hateful, Divisive' Public Comment

Although many community voices during a public comment period at a Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday made the case to continue forward with a massive Mission District development on South Van Ness Avenue,

SF News

Neighborhood Association In Wealthy Forest Hill Unanimously Opposes Affordable Housing For Seniors

A proposed affordable housing project containing 150 apartments for low-income seniors, 20 to 30 percent of them formerly homeless, has given residents of San Francisco's monied Forest Hill neighborhood a frightful shock. "[It's]

SF News

None Of SF's Public Housing Is Publicly Owned Anymore, As Of This Month

It's a story that's playing out in various ways in many corners of the country: Because of severe cuts in federal housing funds that began under President Reagan three and a half decades

SF News

Nearly All Of The Affordable Housing Budget For The Mission To Be Spent On One Building

Just to illustrate the difficult economics of building affordable housing in a time of great need for it, Mission Local is reporting that nearly all of the budget from an affordable housing bond

SF News

Micro-Unit Developer Suggests Shipping Container-Based Supportive Housing For SF Homeless

Patrick Kennedy, the developer of micro-unit apartment complexes like this one we just wrote about the other week, now has his sights set on developing inexpensive, modular supportive housing for the homeless which

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Can SF Developers Afford 25 Percent Affordability? City Controller Says No, Others Still Say Yes

In a report that is sure to spark debate for the coming months ahead of the November election, City Controller Ben Rosenfield has completed a feasibility analysis requested by the Board of Supervisors

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Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water

A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,