SF News Co-Living Concept In SoMa Becomes Traditional Apartments, Will Still Feature Leather-Themed Plaza Remember this upscale commune thing that was being planned by BUILD Inc. for 1532 Harrison? The original plan was to build 235 units in nine separate pods that would share kitchens and common
SF News Supervisors Debating Affordable Housing Density Bonuses Today As discussed last month, the Board of Supervisors today is debating an affordable housing density-bonus program, endorsed by the mayor and drafted by Planning. The deal for developers, as anticipated: Receive two extra
SF News City Report Says Moratorium Won't Help Mission affordable housing advocates are going to want to take a new report from the city's chief economist that says the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing isn't going to do anything to stem
SF News Advocates Want 16th And Mission Site To Become 100 Percent Affordable, But It Probably Won't Following on last week's news that the so-called 'Monster in the Mission' could be doomed due to a legal dispute between the landowner and the developer, opponents of the project jumped for joy,
SF News Below-Market Units At Massive Trinity Place Complex Allegedly Being Rented Airbnb-Style The massive Trinity Place development was pushed through the city's bureaucracy over many years, through many fights, by 90-year-old local powerhouse developer Angelo Sangiacomo. When complete it will ultimately contain 1900 units of
SF News Landlord Of Mission Building Destroyed By Fire Could Sell For $20 Million Ravaged by a January fire that killed one man and displaced 65 tenants and dozens of businesses, the 108-year-old building at the corner of 22nd and Mission Streets is now home to little
SF News The Case Of The Western Addition Housing Complex Sale Is One Of A Nonprofit Gone Rogue So, the story I brought you the outlines of yesterday about Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens turns out to be just as odd as it seemed, and involves a church, a nonprofit it created,
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
SF News Homeless Navigation Center To Become 165-Unit Affordable Building; Will There Be More Navigation Centers? Affordable housing advocates in the Mission District have something to celebrate: The development rights for what's currently the temporary Homeless Navigation Center at the former Phoenix Continuation High School site have been awarded
SF News [Updated] Case Study In Affordable Housing Proves That BMR Buyers Can Get Shafted Remember the viral story about the "poor door" that a New York developer was fighting to construct so that wealthy residents in the new building would not have to rub elbows with, or
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around The Bay: Local Chefs Save Water While Cooking Too California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water,
SF News Building Trades Council Takes Stand Against Mission Developer Over Lack Of Affordability A group representing various construction trade unions has taken a surprising stand against one large market-rate rental development slated for 2000 Bryant Street in the Mission, stating in a resolution submitted to the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Giants Say OK To 40% Affordable Housing For the upcoming, 28-acre mixed-use development behind AT&T Park, at Mission Rock, the Giants have now agreed to build an unprecedented 40 percent of the housing units as below-market-rate. [Socketsite] The
SF News [Update] California Court Says Cities Can Require Developers To Build Affordable Housing A ruling arrived today from the California Supreme Court in a case that supports local ordinances, like the one we have in San Francisco, that requires developers of new market-rate housing to set
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
SF News Marin Wars: George Lucas Keeps Trolling NIMBY Neighbors With Massive Affordable Housing Plan Visionary Star Wars creator George Lucas is no stranger to drawn-out, episodic battles. Most recently, the filmmaker was spurned by the Bay Area when the Presidio Trust rejected his illustration museum, which might
SF News Mayor's Office Thinks $2700 Studio Is 'Affordable' In the ongoing absurdist saga of SF's rental market, we have a snapshot of what the Mayor's Office would consider "middle income" housing the type of income-restricted housing that's "affordable" to people who
SF News Non-Profit Internet Archive Buying Buildings In Bid To Save Affordable Housing For Employees "Our employees are being driven from their homes by rising rents," Brewster Kahle, founder of San Francisco-based non-profit The Internet Archive, said in a talk this month that's been published on his blog.
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Doubles Number Of Affordable Units If you're building a mammoth development in San Francisco like the one proposed by Maximus Real Estate Partners for 330-ish apartments at 16th and Mission, there are a couple of rules. You're required
SF News Sixth Street Gentrification? Affordable Housing Advocates Fear New 5M Development Will Push Out SROs The enormous new proposed development on property partly owned by The San Francisco Chronicle, dubbed 5M (short for 5th and Mission) has the potential to be transformational for the section of SoMa around
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
SF News David Campos Seeks To Possibly Stop Market-Rate Housing Around 24th Street BART One controversial news item this week is talk by Supervisor David Campos of a moratorium on any more new market-rate housing in the quickly gentrifying Mission district something that a lot of people
SF News Only Six Percent Of New Housing Units In Immediate Pipeline Will Be Affordable To Middle Class Mayor Ed Lee has been making a point this year of addressing the dearth of new housing that's actually affordable to people who make average incomes as opposed to the wealthy or the
