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SFHAC’s 2016 Housing Index: A Snapshot of the Housing Outlook

May 26, 2016/ Comments 0 / in Land Use, Member Survey, SFHAC Housing Index

The SFHAC’s development and construction members have watched and tried to make sense of the many bewildering current features of the City’s housing market. This includes stratospheric construction costs, boggling land prices, housing demand that may or may not be cooling and big political changes in the City’s land use policies, like the upcoming Prop…

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Jerry Brown Wants “As-of-Right” Housing

May 23, 2016/ Comments 4 / in Affordable Housing, Board of Appeals, Land Use, Legislation, Policy
Jerry Brown Wants “As-of-Right” Housing

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown announced introduction of potentially landmark legislation that would allow for “as-of-right” housing in California. This means that developments meeting certain conditions would not be subject to discretionary review by local decision-making bodies, or endless appeals by disgruntled local neighbors. If you feel as strongly about housing as we do, then…

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SFHAC Position on Prop C – “Affordable Housing Requirements”

May 12, 2016/ Comments 2 / in Affordable Housing, Inclusionary Housing, Land Use, Prop C 2016
SFHAC Position on Prop C – “Affordable Housing Requirements”

After extensive review of both the charter amendment’s ballot language and its accompanying trailing legislation, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition’s (SFHAC’s) membership could not reach a consensus and agreed to take a NEUTRAL POSITION on Prop C, “Affordable Housing Requirements”. This measure proposes to double the amount of on-site affordable housing required of market-rate…

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Dwellings, Not Displacement in the Mission

May 12, 2016/ Comments 1 / in Affordable Housing, Inclusionary Housing, Land Use, Mission Moratorium, Policy
Dwellings, Not Displacement in the Mission

Last fall, voters soundly rejected the Mission Moratorium, a plan to stop thousands of homes proposed for that neighborhood. The vote showed that San Franciscans believe building more housing for people of all income levels is key to addressing the affordability crisis and preventing displacement in the Mission. Now that the Moratorium has been rejected,…

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SFHAC’s 2016 Policy Agenda

May 2, 2016/ Comments 0 / in Affordable Housing Bonus Program, Inclusionary Housing, Land Use, Legislation, Membership, Policy, Public Sites
SFHAC’s 2016 Policy Agenda

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) works to solve San Francisco’s housing crisis by creating new housing opportunities for all SF residents at all income levels. Our City needs more affordable, middle-income and market-rate housing, as well as a diversity of housing types for both renters and buyers. The SFHAC wants to ensure that…

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48 Hills Explains How Real Estate Finance Works, Sort Of

May 2, 2016/ Comments 1 / in Affordable Housing, Land Use, SFHAC Response
48 Hills Explains How Real Estate Finance Works, Sort Of

An article written recently by Tim Redmond in 48 Hills (“Why developers can’t cry poverty”, March 27th) examines Prop C, income taxes and housing affordability. He claims that real estate development in San Francisco is vastly profitable and developers shouldn’t complain about the City’s fees and exactions, that they’re bluffing. He can’t be faulted for…

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