SF News City Hall Acquires Civic Center Parking Lot, Will Make It 196 Affordable Housing Units What’s currently a parking lot at McAllister and Franklin Streets will become 196 units of affordable housing, in a horse-trading deal between developers and city officials that will ultimately create a reported 671 homes.
SF News New Renderings Drop For 50-Story Tower In the Sunset That Is Absolutely Never Going to Get Built Reno-based developer CH Planning may just be trolling with this nonsense 50-story tower proposed two blocks from Ocean Beach, but they’re sticking to the bit, with a new batch of renderings of this gigantic middle-finger to the Sunset.
SF News More City Hall Housing Drama As Supes Approve 19-Unit Castro Conversion, But Shoot Down 10-Unit Nob Hill Project Two controversial housing projects that have taken many incarnations over the years had appeals before the supervisors Tuesday, and the SF Board of Supervisors approved a 19-unit Castro conversion, but denied a 10-unit Nob Hill conversion.
SF Politics YIMBYs Cry Foul Over Lack of Housing Approved Since Passage of SF Housing Element SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
SF News State Assembly Passes Bill To Undo ‘People As Pollution’ Ruling That Halted People's Park Development After a February appeals court ruling stopped the development of UC Berkeley’s controversial People’s Park housing complex, East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks has a bill cruising through Sacramento that could reverse that decision.
SF News SF Home Prices Cooling Down After Hitting Pandemic Highs San Francisco bucked logic and saw its home prices increase during COVID-19, peaking to a record a year ago this time. But the high price of San Francisco houses is starting to come down.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Plan For Infamous, Rejected 27-Story Residential Tower In SoMa That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
SF News One Oak Property Has Reportedly Gone Into Foreclosure, 40-Story Tower Likely Won’t Get Built What started as a proposed 309-unit condo tower at Market and Oak Streets, and was turned into a proposed 460 rental units at the same location, will now perhaps be zero units, as the developer has surrendered the property to their lending bank.
SF News Developer Wants to Build Massive Residential Building at Sloat Garden Center Site, City Pushes Back About Height A Reno-based developer with a let's-call-it-interesting past when it comes to San Francisco projects is looking to build a huge, 646-unit residential building in the Outer Sunset, and the city says they have misinterpreted how the planning code and density bonus work.
SF Politics YIMBY Law Set to Sue Sausalito Over Allegedly Out-of-Compliance Housing Element The YIMBY crowd is unleashing their lawsuits on cities whose housing elements are not yet approved by the state, and in the case of an impending Marin County lawsuit, claiming that some proposed housing sites are literally “in the water.”
SF News Los Altos Hills Homeowner Is Giving the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ a Go, Submits Plans to Build 20-Unit Complex On His Property In what appears to be the first Bay Area attempt at the “builder’s remedy” for a town without an approved housing element, a Los Altos Hills property owner is trying to subdivide his home into 20 units. Though he admits that if the scheme works, he’s just going to sell the property and move.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Begins Laying Out Plan to Build 82,000 New Homes, and the City's West Side Better Brace Itself "With our Housing Element approved by the state, we have the plan," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday. "Now we need to put it into action."
SF Politics Dozens of Bay Area Cities Are Late In Getting Housing Elements Certified, and YIMBY Groups Plan to Sue Today, February 1, is the state's deadline for cities to have their Housing Elements — the planning documents that dictate overall housing construction goals which serve as contracts with the state — certified. And guess what! Hundreds of towns and cities have blown the deadline.
SF News Supervisors Pass Ambitious Housing Element Plan to Build 82,000 New Units By 2031 A nearly year-long housing policy battle appears to have come to a surprisingly harmonious conclusion, as the SF Board of Supervisors just unanimously passed a state-mandated housing element, and in an unexpected surprise, the state says it will approve the plan.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes New Legislation to Make More 'Gentle Density' Happen In Westside Neighborhoods Supervisor Myrna Melgar introduced legislation Tuesday to create a so-called "family housing opportunity special use district" on the westside that would make building triplexes and fourplexes easier on the sites of mostly vacant single-family homes.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News Activists Blast ‘Developer Dirty Bomb’ And Lack of Racial Equity In SF’s Housing Element Plan The phrase “developer dirty bomb” entered the chat surrounding the San Francisco Housing Element debate at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting, as affordable housing activists argue the soon-to-be-final draft of the plan gives short shrift to racial equity.
SF News New Plan For That SoMa High-Rise On A Nordstrom Parking Lot Making Its Way Through City Hall The proposed 27-story residential tower that gained notoriety when the SF Board of Supervisors rejected it last year is back with a revised plan that went before the Planning Commission Thursday, and it generated shockingly little discussion or debate.
SF News Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.
SF News Housing Element Drama Update: SF Still Set To Be 22,000 Units Short on State-Mandated Goal A looming state requirement that San Francisco present plans to build 82,000 housing units is starting to hit crunch time, and right now our best-case scenario is stuck at shy of 60,000 units.
SF Politics Supervisors Spend Five Hours Haranguing Over Mandated 82,000 New Housing Units, But We Might Actually Hit That Goal? It’s not surprising that the SF Board of Supervisors spent nearly five hours debating a state-mandated housing requirement that the city build 82,000 new housing units by 2031. What is surprising is that we might actually achieve the goal.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF Politics Final Local Ballot Measures Called: Prop M Vacancy Tax Wins, Prop E Affordable Housing Measure Falls The dust appears settled on the final two undetermined SF ballot measures, and the vacant homes tax has passed, while both of the dueling affordable housing ballot measures are shot down.
SF News Power NIMBY Move: Marin Residents Give Selves Hefty Tax Hike to Block Housing Development Would you pay $335 a year, every year for 30 years, to block 43 lots of single-family homes? Some Marin County residents just did that by a decisive margin, rejecting a proposed large-scale development and instead voting make it a 110-acre public park.
SF News Infamous, Rejected Plan for 27-Story Residential Tower in Nordstrom’s Parking Lot Has New Plans Submitted Reports of the death of the 469 Stevenson high-rise were greatly exaggerated, as the developer has submitted a new plan with stronger retrofitting, and this new version is even one story taller.