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
SF News New SoMa Micro-Apartment Complex, The Panoramic, Already Mostly Leased As Student Dorm Space A new batch of micro-apartments in SoMa (remember those?) will be hitting the market around June 2015, called The Panoramic. Located at 9th and Mission, the building has already been largely leased out
SF News Exclusive: How City Hall Actually Thinks It Can Get More Affordable Housing Built Those of you who voted earlier this month approved Prop K, a housing "ordinance" accurately described by the League of Pissed-Off Voters as a “non-binding pinky swear" of a ballot measure. The proposition
SF News SoMa SRO Damaged In 2011 Fire Illegally Turned Into Tech Worker Co-Op The former SRO at 1040 Folsom Street, which was heavily damaged in a three-alarm fire in May 2011, was quietly turned into one of those modern communes we've been hearing so much about,
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF News Almost Half Of Newly Built Condos In S.F. Are Second Homes For Peninsula Wealthy, Others Anecdotally most of us have understood for years that the San Francisco luxury condo market is attracting buyers from afar in search of second or third homes or pied-a-terres, much like the Manhattan
SF News New Condo Tower 181 Fremont Skirts Affordable Housing Requirement The pretty new glass tower going in at 181 Fremont, in the Transbay Redevelopment District, looks like it's going to get away without including any units for non-rich people as Socketsite puts it,
SF News Mayor Lee Launches Pilot Program To Help The Potentially Evicted Stay Put Photo: Dave Golden It may sound like a drop in the bucket (and it kind of is), but Mayor Ed Lee is rolling out a new program today, the first of its kind
SF News Affordable Housing Compromise Reached For November Ballot The battle that had been predicted on the November ballot between competing proposals by Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee on the affordable-housing question has been averted. And it sounds like Kim made
Arts & Entertainment Local Writer Launches Campaign For Non-Profit Artist Housing In San Francisco Fact: It used to be much cheaper to live in San Francisco. The eras of our city's greatest cultural output (say the 1940s to the 70s) were also eras when rent was relatively
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News 174-Square-Foot Residential Closets Coming To Octavia Are you feeling trapped in your railroad-Victorian situation with four roommates you only barely like? Well, if you can just stick it out a little longer, you'll be able to apply for the
SF News Mayor Lee Introduces Counter Measure To Kim's 30-Percent Affordable Measure In response to Supervisor Jane Kim's pledge to either pass a 30-percent affordability threshold for new development in the city, or to get such a measure put on the November ballot, Mayor Ed
