SF News 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
SF News 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,
SF News Report: San Jose, Not San Francisco, Has Highest Median Home Price In Country Our neighbor to the south is on its way to becoming just a little more memorable with the news that San Jose now has the highest median home prices of any metro area
SF News Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Publicly Resigns Saying She Can't Afford To Live There Anymore It's a familiar story these days up and down the Peninsula — person gets priced out of the city in which they've lived for years as housing costs skyrocket, and is forced to uproot
SF News Nine-Story, All Below-Market Complex Likely Headed For Folsom And 17th Perhaps pointing to the fact that moratorium on Mission development wasn't wholly necessary, there are a total of four fully below-market-rate developments now in the pipeline in the Mission in addition to the
SF News Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to
SF News Five-Story, 50-Unit Residential Building Proposed For Valencia Near 14th Getting anything built in the Mission District is very challenging! For evidence of that, here's a fun example from last year, or the story of some more recent but long-delayed movement on the
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
SF News Yet Another Aging Affordable Housing Complex Senses Threat From Outside Development Today we hear of another case involving a subsidized housing complex in the Western Addition that's over 30 years old and that suddenly finds itself in an awkward, legally tricky predicament regarding its
SF News Here's How San Francisco Voted On All The Props In Yesterday's Election Were you one of the roughly 185,000 people that, according to the SF Department of Elections, voted in San Francisco yesterday? If so, when you entered the voting booth you were presented
SF News Rival Density Bonus Plans Vie For Support Correction: This post originally stated that Supervisor Peskin's proposal had been killed. It has not been, and this post has been corrected to reflect that. SF Supervisor Katy Tang and Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Gov. Jerry Brown Declares War On NIMBYs And Planning Commissions With New Housing Bill You may have heard some rumblings about this in recent weeks, but Governor Jerry Brown has been pushing through a revision to the state's density bonus program that would potentially wipe out the
SF News Report Reveals How Quickly SF Is Gaining (And Losing) Affordable Housing For the last decade — more specifically, January 2006 through December 2015— take the number of affordable homes in San Francisco: Those that already existed, those that were rehabbed or acquired, and those that
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco's, requiring developers of large
SF News Video: Regarding The Ongoing Rent Strike At The Western Addition's Midtown Apartments Download videosavingmidtown_indybay.mp4 (398.2MB) The case of the ongoing rent strike and enormous deferred maintenance bill at the Fillmore-adjacent Midtown Park Apartments dates back to last August, when renters in the
SF News Bizarre Lawsuit Over Western Addition Housing Complex Settled Out Of Court Last summer, SFist broke news about a Section 8 housing project on Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition, built in the 1970s by a prominent black church in the neighborhood, that was
SF News Another Housing Argument: Greater Density Does Not Mean Cheaper Units A new study published by the Center for Demographics and Policy titled "Building Cities for People" presents a new wrinkle in the age-old argument about supply and demand when it comes to dealing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fight Over Mission Development Turns Homophobic A Clipper snafu with monthly passes not loading right after the new year means possible refunds for some riders but not you, Nevius. [KRON 4] Woman and her teenage lover accused in child
SF News Mayor Seeks Increase In Affordable Housing Requirements Ed Lee, reelected mayor but of a different San Francisco, today announced a new call to increase the percentage of affordable housing required from private market-rate developers building new housing. With Board of
SF News Huge 5M Development In SoMa Gets Jane Kim's Blessing After Adding 40 Percent Affordability The massive mixed-use development slated for the block surrounding the Chronicle building at 5th and Mission, dubbed 5M, appears to be moving forward despite some controversy, and today we get word that Jane
SF News Big Empty Parking Lot At Balboa Park Station To Become Affordable Housing In a move that should never have taken this long, a sizable, city-owned parking lot next to the Balboa Park BART station in the Excelsior is moving forward to be developed as 80
SF News Here's Why You Need To Vote In Tuesday's Election (And Why Many Of You Won't) A lot of you are probably sick of reading stories about affordable housing, moratoriums on building, Airbnb, and a bizarrely contentious fight over something called District 3, wherever that might be. For those
SF News Mission To Lose 8,000 Latino Residents By 2025, Report Warns If trends as we know them continue, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts that, as a proportion of the Mission District, the percentage of Latinos will decline from 48 percent in
SF News New Towers At Van Ness And Market Could Rise Even Higher Via Density Bonuses An update to the existing zoning for a section of Market Street that would allow for the construction of taller buildings is currently in the works, which could result in some even taller
