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SAN FRANCISCO – On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors moved to satisfy housing policy requirements mandated by the state, while asking for exceptions at the same time. Mayor London ...
SAN FRANCISCO – State officials announced Tuesday that they will conduct a review of San Francisco's housing policies, amid concerns about the slow progress in constructing homes amid the ...
The clock is ticking. San Francisco was already under pressure to meet a state mandated goal to accommodate 82,000 new housing units by 2031. The screw was tightened Oct. 25 when the state set a ...
In an upending of The City’s decades-long housing policy, it should soon be legal to build four units of housing on any residential lot in San Francisco. Capping years of planning and ...
I’ve seen San Francisco’s twin housing and public education crises from a couple of different angles over the past several years. Currently, I’m the policy director at California YIMBY (for ...
Middle-income households may struggle less to afford rent — but they often are forced to the peripheries of the Bay Area, or ...
Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series examining how San Francisco’s reevaluation ... the unhoused about how supportive housing policies could change in the coming years.
Davis needs to stop stifling growth, affordability, and opportunity by rethinking its housing policies and building out ...
With the San Francisco mayoral race ... see a chance to make a once-in-a-decade impact on the city’s housing and development policies. “There are a lot of points here that, if turned correctly ...
A local think tank is urging the Boston City Council to steer clear of mirroring housing policies off San Francisco, with the recommendation coming after councilors approved a hearing order on ...
For more than two decades, “harm reduction” was official policy in San Francisco. As a formerly homeless heroin ... and transitional, drug-free housing with mandatory programming, job training, and ...
Mr. Kirchofer is a former member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, and a member of the SPUR Housing Policy Board. Mr. Kirchofer received a Bachelor of Arts ...