Events, Land Use, Legislation, News, San Francisco 09 Feb 2015 Smaller-Scale Planning Initiatives Could Guide Future Housing DevelopmentOn February 3rd, SFHAC, SPUR and the AIA San Francisco co-sponsored a panel that focused on the next steps in… Housing Action Coalition
Events, Land Use, News 02 Feb 2015 Oakland is Open for BusinessA large group of folks from the SF Housing Action Coalition and the Bay Area Council spent last Thursday exploring… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Land Use, Legislation, News 26 Jan 2015 Where’s the Money? Funding Middle-Income Housing in San FranciscoLast Friday, Rebecca Foster, the City lead on the Mayor’s Housing Working Group’s Funding Sub-Group, spoke at our Regulatory Committee… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Events, Land Use, News 20 Jan 2015 2175 Market Delivers Housing and Funky RetailMembers of the SF Housing Action Coalition recently joined a tour of the new mixed-use development at 2175 Market Street.… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Land Use, Legislation, News, San Francisco 15 Dec 2014 Mayor’s 2014 Housing Work Group Wrap UpAfter 10-months and hundreds of hours spent on housing policy research and discussions, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, Legislation, News, Transportation 08 Dec 2014 Less Parking = More Benefits and Reduced CostsCities and innovation are often considered synonymous. But for a variety of reasons, the two fields most responsible for building… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News 24 Nov 2014 Revolutionizing Economic Development with OppSitesCities and innovation are often considered synonymous. But for a variety of reasons, the two fields most responsible for building… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Land Use, Legislation, News 17 Nov 2014 Increasing Housing Affordability in the Central SoMa Area PlanFollowing this month’s passage of Prop K, San Francisco has set a goal of ensuring at least 33 percent of… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Land Use, Legislation, News 17 Nov 2014 How Berkeley Uses the Density Bonus LawAs San Francisco Planning Department staff continue to work on crafting a density bonus proposal, it’s useful to look to… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, Legislation, News, San Francisco, Take Action 10 Nov 2014 Planning Department Lays Out SF’s Housing Predicament: Take Action Now!The SF Planning Department released a short video that starkly confronts our housing challenges. Watch it and take action by… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Events, Land Use, Legislation, News 31 Oct 2014 Housing in 2015: Experts Expect the Boom to ContinueBy the end of 2014, more housing will have been built in San Francisco than in any other single year… Housing Action Coalition
Events, Land Use, News, San Francisco, Take Action 31 Oct 2014 New Housing and Some “Decompression Space” Coming to Dogpatch NeighborhoodFrom Native American hunting ground to World War II Naval Shipyard, Dogpatch has always served as a place of opportunity.… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Events, Land Use, Legislation, News 27 Oct 2014 Mayor Lee’s Housing Working Group: Latest InstallmentMayor Ed Lee convened the third “big tent” meeting since February with the City’s numerous housing stakeholders last Tuesday. As… Housing Action Coalition
Events, Land Use, News, Press, Take Action 24 Oct 2014 A Sneak Peek Inside 100 Van Ness’s Partially Finished RentalsCurbed SF joined us on a tour of the nearly-completed 100 Van Ness Avenue development. Lamar Anderson writes up the… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, Legislation, News 20 Oct 2014 The Local Application of State-Level CEQA ChangesAs a result of passage of SB 743 in 2013, level of service (LOS) is no longer a CEQA trigger.… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News, San Francisco, Take Action, Waterfront 17 Oct 2014 Dogpatch Leads the Way in Neighborhood RevitalizationThe Dogpatch neighborhood is becoming a vibrant urban community. A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle stated, “San Francisco’s… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News, Take Action 13 Oct 2014 Lessons from the Architects: The Market and Octavia PlanIn a very content-rich lunchtime forum at SPUR last Tuesday, six San Francisco architects shared their experiences of designing and… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News, Take Action 13 Oct 2014 Food Hall Enlivens Mid-MarketIf you’ve walked down Market Street lately, you may have noticed some new life on the block between Sixth and… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Events, Land Use, News, Planning 06 Oct 2014 Lots of Opportunity for Housing in OaklandWe can all agree that housing production is a regional problem. Wanting to look outside our backyard, last week the… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Land Use, Legislation, News 22 Sep 2014 Will the City Finally Pass a Density Bonus Law?San Francisco, according to a 2013 California appellate court ruling, has been out of compliance with the state’s density bonus… Housing Action Coalition
Affordable Housing, Events, Land Use, Legislation, News (Left to right): Eric Tao, Peter Cohen, Adam Koval, Oz Erickson, Sarah Dennis-Phillips and Tim Colen 22 Sep 2014 A Menu of Solutions for Housing AffordabilityHousing affordability has been in San Francisco’s headlines since the economy began to recover. To explore the controversy surrounding the… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News 15 Sep 2014 Numbers Are Out for Bay Area Residential PipelineThe Concord Group, a SFHAC member and land-use consulting and market analysis firm, recently released their latest installment of the… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, Legislation, News 08 Sep 2014 CEQA Reform May Be Rearing Its Head This FallThe California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA reform), has long been the bete noire of urbanists. Signed into law in 1970… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News, Planning, San Francisco 18 Aug 2014 Last Minute Continuance for 490 South Van Ness ProjectLast week, District 9 Supervisor Campos requested a continuance for a proposed project at 490 South Van Ness Avenue, six… Housing Action Coalition
Land Use, News, San Francisco, Take Action 18 Aug 2014 Sup. Tang’s Land Use Plan Creates Path for New Housing in Outer SunsetDistrict 4 Supervisor Katy Tang recently introduced the Sunset District Blueprint, which unveils a land use plan for the neighborhood… Housing Action Coalition
