How Breed undermined plan to save affordable housing on Divisadero Street

How Breed undermined plan to save affordable housing on Divisadero Street

Building could easily have gone to nonprofit instead of convicted felon who tried to burn down res hotel in Oakland. By TIM REDMOND DECEMBER 10, 2023 (48hills.org)  Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on LinkedIn Share on RedditShare on Email The affordable housing money that voters have approved several times in… Continue reading

The housing crisis Scott Wiener created

The housing crisis Scott Wiener created

Demolitions. Displacement. And zero new affordable housing. That’s the bill the state senator got passed, and the supes have to deal with it this week. By TIM REDMOND DECEMBER 3, 2023 (48hills.org) On KQED news Sunday night, a reporter announced that “housing advocates” in San Francisco were pushing the Board… Continue reading

Housing bill that makes no sense at all moves forward with reluctant committee vote

Housing bill that makes no sense at all moves forward with reluctant committee vote

Trickle-down economics from the Reagan Era rules as the state forces San Francisco to give luxury developers what they want (and ignores affordable housing). By TIM REDMOND NOVEMBER 27, 2023 (48hills.org) The Board of Supes Land Use and Transportation Committee forwarded without recommendation a housing plan that all three committee… Continue reading

IN SF, MODERATES AND PROGRESSIVES BOTH BLOCKED HOUSING

by Randy Shaw on November 6, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) “Moderates” helped kill housing at 8 Washington Setting San Francisco History Straight A revisionist (i.e. false) history of San Francisco claims that progressives and particularly Supervisor Aaron Peskin are solely to blame for blocking housing for over two decades. The facts say otherwise. From moderate… Continue reading

IS SF ON VERGE OF A HOUSING BOOM?

by Randy Shaw on October 23, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) Stalled project at One Oak Bad Timing for San Francisco While housing advocates celebrate California’s new laws to boost housing production, San Francisco activists will have to wait a few years to see results. It’s a case of bad timing. Had these housing bills  passed from 1995-2018… Continue reading

Board committee continues mayor’s housing streamlining legislation

Controversy persists over move to ease demolition of rent-controlled units by XUEER LU OCTOBER 3, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) San Francisco’s land use committee continued Mayor London Breed’s housing streamlining legislation on Monday, spotlighting concerns that the law might ease the demolition of rent-controlled housing in certain circumstances.  The Land Use and Transportation… Continue reading

A chron oped on the housing hearing is wrong, and signals a new attack on the supes

A chron oped on the housing hearing is wrong, and signals a new attack on the supes

Board members asked for a modest delay to consider the mayor’s amendments to a complex housing bill. The Chron talks of “Nimbys.” By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 (48hills.org) I should know better than to take seriously any analysis of the city’s housing crisis coming from the Office of State… Continue reading

Mayor’s Office missing as supes discuss mayor’s proposed housing policies

Mayor’s Office missing as supes discuss mayor’s proposed housing policies

Breed’s plan, drafted with little community input, would do nothing for the city’s affordable housing needs; supes aren’t going along. By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 (48hills.org) Mayor London Breed is proposing some pretty sweeping new rules to make it easier for for-profit developers to make money building housing in San Francisco…. Continue reading

Nancy Pelosi is getting two more years. Maybe she can help SF with housing money

Nancy Pelosi is getting two more years. Maybe she can help SF with housing money

Is it all about her daughter taking her seat—or, for a change, will she use her clout to bring federal cash to SF for affordable housing? By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 (48hills.org) It came as something of a shock to the local political world, particularly state Senator Scott Wiener,… Continue reading