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
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,
