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Still Very Tall Building Proposed for Sloat Boulevard Site

The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.

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SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing

That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.

Here Is the Affordable Housing Project Slated to Rise on the Site of Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire

Nearly eight years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people, we have our first look at the plans for the two-building, five-story affordable housing complex being built to replace it in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and it will have an on-site memorial.

Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Scales Back SF Rent Control Expansion That Would Move Forward If Prop 33 Passes

An ambitious proposal to expand San Francisco's rent control ordinance to units built through 2024 has been scaled back, but Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that voters should know what the board's plans are in the event that Prop 33 passes next month.

Fell Street DMV Site to Become 372 Affordable Housing Units

The 1960-built Department of Motor Vehicles office and its parking lot at the tip of the Panhandle in San Francisco will be redeveloped as affordable housing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.

Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled

What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.

City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station

Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.

Developer of Market and Van Ness Tower Strikes Deal to Restart Construction, Nix Affordable Units

Australian developer Lendlease may not completely abandon its 47-story Hayes Point project after all, as SF city leaders are looking to cut a deal and let them out of an affordable housing requirement.

$20 Billion Bay Area Affordable Housing Bond Killed Off at Last Minute, As It Seemed Unlikely to Pass

What would have been the biggest housing bond in California history has already been yanked off the ballot three months before the election, and Bay Area voters will not be voting on a $20 billion affordable housing bond in November’s elections.

Outer Sunset Affordable Housing for Teachers Project Swamped With 900 Applications for Just 135 Units

The good news is that the highly anticipated affordable housing complex for SFUSD teachers is just a couple months from allowing its new tenants in. The bad news is that the vast majority of applicants won’t get a place, as applicants outnumber available units by about sixfold.

Teacher Housing Project at 18th and Mission Suddenly in Limbo, Site to Remain an Eyesore for Foreseeable Future

An ambitious affordable housing for teachers was set to bring 63 housing units to a bedraggled abandoned building at 18th and Mission streets, but the federal funding was denied, and the project is now delayed indefinitely.

'One Oak' Tower at Foot of Van Ness Might Get Built After All, But With Smaller Affordable Component

A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.

Some Anonymous Donor Just Gave $100 Million to Build Affordable Housing for Artists on Market Street

We may be losing the McRoskey Mattress store at Market and Gough streets, but we’d be getting about 100 affordable housing units for artists in a slick new building, thanks to a cool $100 million from an anonymous benefactor.

Latest, Greatest Version of Ambitious Stonestown Development Gets Approval, With Even More Housing

The grandiose plan to turn Stonestown Galleria and its parking lot into a vibrant housing village with new parks was approved by the SF Planning Commission, and it’s been souped up from 2,900 housing units to now 3,500 units.

Report: More Than 80% of Middle-Income 'Below Market Rate’ Housing Units Sitting Vacant In SF, Partly Thanks to Red Tape

It’s great that San Francisco developers are given incentives to set aside housing for middle-income families that can’t afford the pricier units. It’s not so great that a large percentage of these units are sitting empty because of bureaucracy and the state of the housing market.

Wealthy Peninsula Town Could Get Denser Housing Forced Upon It As State Revokes Its Housing Element

The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.

Ambitious Potrero Bus Yard Affordable Housing Project Might Get Slashed From 500 Units to 100 Units

As the SFMTA proceeds with their grand plan to modernize the 109-year-old Potrero Yard bus facility and build 500 units of affordable housing on top of it, we receive word that they may reduce that affordable housing component to barely 100 units.

Long-Stalled Plan to Build Affordable Housing on Top of Chinatown’s New Asia Restaurant Back in the Works

A 2017 idea to build a large affordable housing complex on top of New Asia restaurant in Chinatown has just been rebooted, and the plan would convert New Asia back into the banquet hall it used to be.

Former Mission-Bernal Big Lots Slated to Become 70 Units of Affordable Senior Housing

The big lot that used to house Big Lots on Mission Street may soon be home to an affordable senior housing complex, from the same nonprofit that’s rebuilding the burnt remains of the 3300 Club across the street.

Peskin, Chan Making Noise About Suing the State Over Mandatory Housing Goals

The latest drama over SF’s state-mandated goal to build more than 82,000 new housing units comes from Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, who want to blow up that mandate with a lawsuit, though City Attorney David Chiu may be unwilling to throw that bomb.

Renderings Show Proposed New 100% Affordable Housing Project at Burned-Out 29th and Mission Building

What used to be the 3300 Club, El Taco Loco, and a Mission-Bernal SRO is now slated to become 35 units of all-affordable housing, and we now have new renderings of plans for what has just been a burnt-out eyesore for seven and a half years.

Former ‘Monster in the Mission,’ Now to be 100% Affordable Housing, Awarded to Two Local Nonprofits

A monster step forward for what was once a largely derided luxury condo development at 16th and Mission streets, as the former “Monster in the Mission” will be 100% affordable housing developed by two respected affordable housing nonprofits.

SF Supervisors Pass Crucial Housing Ordinance Urged by State, But With Changes State Might Reject

The SF Board of Supervisors played chicken with a state deadline to remove constraints on housing production, and while they theoretically met the deadline Tuesday, the amendments they added could still cost SF big money.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donating $1 Million to Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims and Farmworker Housing

The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay exposed a secret underbelly of immigrant farm workers living in squalid on-farm housing, but a million-dollar donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation will go to improving those workers’ living conditions.

SF Once Again Playing Chicken With State Over Housing Element, 'Builder's Remedy'

Another deadline looms that could mean the difference between San Francisco officials maintaining planning controls or allowing a free-for-all of development, and it's happening because state housing officials are exerting serious pressure on the city to build more housing.