Matt Olhausen and Rob Howard from Pillsbury Law recently made a presentation to the SFHAC Regulatory Committee about Opportunity Zones.

Tacked to the bulletin board in an office at San Francisco’s Planning Department is a sticker with a peace sign accompanied by the slogan, “World peace through better zoning.” While it is meant to be whimsical, it is the case that most San Franciscans tend to view any rezoning process as an evil force destroying local culture and a certain way of life, encouraging social and economic strife and causing “bad hair days, you name it” (in the words of one of San Francisco’s senior urban planners, Josh Switzky).

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition makes the following recommendations for state and local ballot measures in November 2018.

Join SFHAC to support housing on Divisadero! San Francisco has limited land and we need to maximize the land use of efficiency on each parcel. For the Divisadero/Fillmore Neighborhood Commercial Corridor, turning underutilized land into housing delivers the greatest value to San Franciscans.

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition’s (SFHAC) Regulatory Committee recently heard from The Kelsey, an non-profit organization in San Francisco working to create more housing for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

As construction and development costs continue to drastically surge in San Francisco, developers and contractors who participated in SFHAC’s 2018 Housing Index expressed a lack of confidence in the housing market compared to previous surveys.

The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition took a position on four ballot measures this past election, encouraging you to vote “Yes” on the following measures.

Check out our guide for June 2018 ballot propositions...

Senate Bill 827, authored by State Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Phil Ting, is currently going through the California State legislative process in Sacramento. The San Francisco Housing Action Coalition strongly supports the legislation.

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In Sacramento, Senator Scott Wiener has introduced Senate Bill 827, designed to improve California’s housing affordability and displacement crisis. The progressive bill was noticed nationwide, with the Boston Globe claiming, “The bill may be the biggest environmental boon, the best job creator, and the greatest strike against inequality that anyone’s proposed in the United States in decades.”

Recently, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition’s Regulatory Committee heard from Yury Lifshits, co-founder of Statecraft. Statecraft’s goal is pretty straightforward: use data to help us understand how housing gets built in San Francisco and beyond.