Your San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) and Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition (BayHAC) team is working hard to advocate for our members during this unpredictable time.

SFHAC and partner organization BayHAC announced this week that Kaylé Barnes has joined both organizations as Development Director.

The Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition announced today its support of California YIMBY’s formal complaint to the California Fair Political Practices Committee (FPPC) calling on them to investigate Michael Weinstein’s spending against SB 50 in last year’s election. Michael Weinstein and his organization, the Aids Healthcare Foundation, spent heavily to spread misinformation about Senate Bill 50, State Senator Scott Wiener’s beleaguered housing production legislation that advocates had hoped would help create desperately needed homes near transit all across the state, and the legal team at CAYIMBY say there’s ample evidence that Weinstein’s reporting practices were likewise dishonest.

SFHAC enjoyed a visit from a group of students from the University of Seoul in South Korea this week, with both teams co-presenting research and work exploring everything from the roots of the housing crisis in California to the recent interest in large-scale experimental co-housing projects in Seoul and it’s suburbs as the country works to provide hundred of thousands of promised and much-needed new homes.

The mayor demonstrated her leadership on housing issues long before she entered office, but in the face of continued obstruction by a board of supervisors unwilling to work together and do their part to house the San Franciscans they’re obligated to under our shared values, the measure she announced this week amending the city charter to streamline the production of new housing backs her record up with real action.

The March 3, 2020 Presidential Primary Election is just 1 month away, and as early voting begins, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition and Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition policy teams are out with recommendations on the local and regional measures that deserve your vote and the legislation proposed for the city and the state we continue to keep an eye on.

BayHAC and SFHAC team members and supporters joined neighbors, advocates, and local leaders like San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo  at Second Street Studios in San Jose last week to kick off the campaign to pass Measure E, an affordable housing measure funded by taxing the transfer of any properties assessed at $2 million dollars or more.

Read and share our letter to Mayor London Breed and Planning Commissioner Myrna Melgar regarding the upcoming appointment of a new Planning Director.

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition has announced formal positions on three ballot measures ahead of the November 2019 San Francisco election.

In one of the most dramatic closes to a legislative session in recent memory, and after countless phone calls, hours waiting to give public comment, nights of policy analysis, and days activating allies on social media, the rollercoaster 2019 California legislative session closed last week. After the summer saw critical housing bills like SB 50 mired in gridlock, the majority of SFHAC’s endorsed bills ended up making it through both the State Senate and Assembly and on to the governor’s desk.

Sign the petition supporting the maximum number of subsidized affordable housing in the Haight-Ashbury!

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition is pleased to announce that our 2019 Housing Hero Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented by none other than the city’s own.

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition is proud to announce both the Presenting and Legacy Sponsors of the 17th Annual Housing Hero Awards, Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP and Related California!

With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, last week saw a flurry of action on housing legislation in the Capitol. Perhaps the most noteworthy event was from a housing-related bill that SFHAC is currently neutral on;, Assembly Bill 1482 from Assembly member David Chiu

There are less than three weeks for this year’s bills to move through the State Legislature and on to Governor Newsom’s desk. Our recent rundown on all the HAC-endorsed bills still looking to make it into law this year went up in July, and we wanted to follow up on the housing legislation to keep your eyes on as we approach the September 13th deadline for bills to wend their way through the State Senate and State Assembly.

SFHAC’s Deputy Director Talks HUD’s Announced Investigation of San Francisco, Roots of Affordable Housing Shortage on KTVU

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition joined advocates, organizations, neighbors, and businesses from across the city in Duboce Park on Thursday to announce that we’re joining All In, a new coalition-led campaign mobilizing San Francisco residents to advance solutions to homelessness here in San Francisco.

With the creation of the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition, HAC’s regional and Sacramento-focused advocacy arm, 2019 has been the most active year in the capital for our organization. So far, HAC has officially taken support positions on 24 different housing bills; all would lead to the creation of more housing at all levels of affordability. The proposals touch on a number of different areas and have varying levels of impact and controversy.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is supporting the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition (BayHAC) – a newly formed regional advocacy arm of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) that is charged with expanding to the greater Bay Area region the pro-housing dialogue and advocacy that have been successful in San Francisco.

San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) and its recently created regional arm, the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition (BayHAC) announced this week that Mallory Lynn Hill of Oakland joined both organizations as Communications Director.