SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Developer Buys Mostly Vacant Live-Work Building on Mid-Market A Mid-Market building full of affordable studio units that was the subject of a protracted eviction fight in the last decade is now slated to become home to 400 sleeping pods, if a developer gets his way.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Program for New Affordable Artist Housing on Mid-Market, Courtesy of Anonymous Donor The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hawaii Joins West Coast States in Vaccine Initiative Oakland celebrates Pride on Sunday — it's in front of City Hall this year; 50 years ago today a Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento; and Hawaii has joined California, Oregon, and Washington in creating a unified vaccine policy in the absence of CDC support.
SF News 425-Unit Potrero Hill Housing Project Breaks Ground After Five Years In Limbo, Now 100% Affordable A 100% affordable housing project broke ground at 16th and DeHaro streets Monday morning, and this is newsworthy, because it's being built by a market-rate developer, and it was not originally going to be affordable housing.
SF News Supervisors Reject Appeal of 16th & Mission Housing Project for Formerly Homeless The former "Monster in the Mission” condo project is now slated to be 100% affordable housing, but some residents tried to block the project over housing so many of the formerly homeless. The SF Board of Supervisors shot down their appeal.
SF News Former ‘Monster In the Mission’ Affordable Housing Site Now Faces Appeal Over Housing the Formerly Homeless What appeared to be a fairy tale ending for affordable housing in the Mission District may still come unraveled, as now residents are fighting the project because they think the new tenants might be too low-income for their tastes.
Business & Tech That $1B Pledge to Build Housing That Facebook Made Six Years Ago? It's Basically Dead Back in his philanthropy era, Mark Zuckerberg made a grand pledge to put $1 billion toward building new housing, to combat the affordability crisis in California that companies like his had contributed to. But that project has quietly been jettisoned.
SF News Tenants of Fillmore District Housing Complex Complain of Unsafe Conditions, Long-Deferred Maintenance Issues Residents at Thomas Paine Square Apartments in the Fillmore say they're dealing with substandard living conditions and a city government that hasn't helped them so far while their landlord ignores their complaints.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
SF News Ground Is Broken For 168-Unit Affordable Project on Site of Pandemic-Time Tent Camp In Mission A site that had been one of several to spark controversy and protest in the last decade as market-rate developers were ravenous to build in the Mission District is now going to become the largest 100%-affordable development in the neighborhood in 20 years.
SF Politics Scott Wiener At It Again With a Bill to Upzone Housing Density Near Transit Hubs After his multiple previous attempts to throw out zoning restrictions in areas near transit hubs have failed, state Senator Scott Wiener has a new measure to streamline larger housing projects near a more limited number of those hubs.
SF News Residents Sign Petition, Push Back on 22-Story Highrise In Outer Sunset Once again there is opposition to a large development on San Francisco's sleepy west side, and while the latest proposal isn't massively out of scale like the last one, it is still much bigger than anything the Outer Sunset has ever seen.
SF News 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.
Business & Tech 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.
SF News 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.
SF Politics 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF Politics $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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News '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.
