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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
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
