An estimated 24,500 households in Vancouver are in need of more affordable housing.
We’ve reached a major milestone in the evolution of The City’s “inclusionary housing” policy, which ensures that market-rate developers build mixed-income communities that include a percentage of permanently affordable units.
San Francisco's new deal over affordable housing requirements is raising concerns that housing production will slow significantly.
Two competing affordable housing philosophies go head-to-head this week in San Francisco City Hall. One intends to keep middle-class families in a city that’s become increasingly white collar. The other seeks to build more affordable housing for the poor.
A pile of misinformation skews debate about how much below-market housing developers should have to provide.
It was intended to help San Francisco come up with a plan for alleviating its housing crisis.
Almost any big project in the city has the same option, but nobody has pursued it until now.
A project with 200 micro-units has been approved, the first time a San Francisco housing project has used the state's density bonus program, which allows developments with affordable housing to rise 35 percent higher.
A city program meant to keep at-risk tenants in place and transform small buildings into permanently affordable housing may get a funding boost soon thanks to new legislation to be introduced today at the Board of Supervisors.
Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Eric Mar announced forthcoming legislation on Tuesday that would allow developers to build denser, taller buildings on certain lots around the city if the buildings are fully affordable.
Requiring private developers in San Francisco to rent 20 percent of units in new apartment buildings at below-market prices would slow down construction of housing, the city controller concludes.
Hundreds of SoMa residents worried that their affordable rents could soon more than double can now rest easy. The city has cut a deal with the owner of South Beach Marina Apartments at 2 Townsend St. to keep the units at below-market prices.
The high-stakes fight over which San Francisco housing developers will be required to increase affordable-housing levels significantly if Proposition C passes in the June 7 election spilled into public view Monday, with some developers claiming a raw deal.
Should residential projects already planned in the Mission and South of Market neighborhoods have more affordable housing?
This Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors is poised to put a very important measure before the voters on this coming June’s ballot. If they vote yes, which seems likely, it will be one small step for the Board, one giant step for San Franciscans.
A big and exciting change is coming down the pike for the City’s inclusionary housing requirement.
As San Francisco’s affordability crisis continues unabated, there is almost universal consensus that we need to expand housing opportunities that are affordable to working-class residents in all neighborhoods of The City.
A charter amendment that more than doubles the amount of below-market-rate housing required in private residential developments — and shifts the policy-making process for such a change from the voters back to the Board of Supervisors — is on track for the June ballot.
The proposal by Supervisor Jane Kim is likely to spark a fight with market-rate developers who have argued that increasing affordable housing requirements may kill some projects, resulting in less affordable housing.