Amendments to S.B. 827 Help Push Transit Housing Bill Forward
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Senator Scott Wiener has revised S.B. 827, the Transit-Rich Housing Bonus, his bill to allow more housing near public transportation.
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ULI Talk: Breaking Through the Housing Deadlock
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“The land in this state is like a sponge–it soaks up all the creative ability of the people,” said Kim-Mai Cutler, Operating Partner at Initialized Capital, and a tech journalist. The cost of rent and mortgages consumes all of peoples’ work and creativity, without providing the things they need, such as “mass transit, schools, and […]
Guest Editorial: San Francisco Housing Advocates Need to Control the Infighting
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Over the summer, YIMBY–shorthand for ‘Yes-In-My Backyard’–organizers from all over the nation gathered in Oakland to share strategies on how to advance their brand of pro-development urbanism. The ‘YIMBYtown’ conference brought over 200 attendees and an impressive roster of guest speakers. YIMBY is a national movement and its Bay Area disciples are prominent. The organization […]
SPUR Talk: Why is Housing so Expensive?
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The San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), during a lunchtime presentation yesterday, developed a blueprint to bring down Bay Area housing prices in five years, so that everyone who wants to live in the city can afford a home. Actually, they didn’t do that. But it would have been nice. Instead, […]
YIMBY Asks: How Do We Get the Housing We Need?
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“Our planning process is broken,” said San Francisco Planning Commissioner and SPUR SF director Christine Johnson, at a panel discussion last night in the Mission held by the YIMBY party of San Francisco. YIMBY’s mission, for those who may not be familiar with the group, is to advocate for affordable and market-rate housing, with the goal […]
SPUR Talk: Scratching Away at the Housing Crisis
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Yesterday evening the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) held a panel discussion about efforts to provide housing for families. The presentation, held at their downtown SF location, also doubled as a rally supporting legislation from Supervisor Katy Tang of District 4 (Sunset/Parkside), called Home-SF, which aims to increase the amount of work-force […]